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Well, my dear, so good to see you back. Oh
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what's that. Well, I'm sure we can find a way too.
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Unwind a bit. After all, the holidays are for joy
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and cheer. I suppose I should get this fire burning
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bright and hot. It is the winter, after all, so
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cold it could chill you to the bone. Oh, where
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are my manners? Here's a cup of hot tea to enjoy.
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I know how much you like it. Now, don't you
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worry one bit. Put your feet up in my favorite chair.
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I know right now everything seems are everything feels like
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a see of troubles.
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I'm now mystery there, brought to you in part by
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True Value Hardware, your store of first choice.
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Come in.
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Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall.
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Welcome to the sound of suspense. Welcome to the fear
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you can hear. Welcome to the world of terrifying imagination.
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The subject of the story you're about to hear is murder,
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but the subject is also time. We've all heard of
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killing time, but have you heard about using time to kill?
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You will in the next few minutes, when mister Owen
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Layton himself tells you his most ingenious scheme for getting
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rich quick by means of sudden death.
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Owen, for heaven's sake, what are you doing here?
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You're supposed to be in powering chalk.
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Harrias, and I seem to have done exactly that. By
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the way, I met your charming dance Indreka, although I'm
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quite sure he didn't see me, But I don't understand
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how could you possibly have returned home so soon? I
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was in a terrible hurry to see you, darling. I
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simply couldn't wait to see you, and dude bid.
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Our mystery drama Sea of Troubles was written especially for
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the mystery theater by Henry Schlesser and stars got Scotworth.
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Our spine Tingler begins across the sea in the delightful
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city of Paris. They say that you can sit at
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a sidewalk cafe in one of these streets, and sooner
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or later meet everyone you've ever known. Well, now we're
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going to introduce you.
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To someone who you don't know, but whose acquaintance you
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will enjoy.
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Me.
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His name is Owen Layton, and he prefers to tell
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you his unusual story in his own words.
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I arrived at Paris at ten o'clock that morning, but
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I didn't leave my hotel room until well after four.
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I knew my brother Gerald's habits only do well. He'd
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probably be sleeping until noon, so I knew where he
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would be at four pm. Of course, at Patrick's cafe
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with the Montparna's. Everyone loved Gerald at Patrick's because he
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was famous for always paying his bills with my money.
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Of course, was a missi bojoule. I chose a table
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well to the side, but my appearance still attracted considerable attention.
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And why not with my rumpled English tweeds, a long
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gray beard in the style of Ulysses as grant a
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pair of crutches to keep my monstrously bandaged foots off
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the Parisian as folk, I must have been quite a
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sight you guys. Pound knows you will play them as.
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Well what he had no one for the love of pay.
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Hello, Gerald, I'm glad you were able to recognize me
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under all his hair and bandages. What's the matter with
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your foot? I never mind about bad Give me a
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look at you. I haven't seen my kid brother in
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over a year. You know something, you look more French.
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Than every Come on, now let's hear about that foot.
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Open the beard what did you grow? Well, that's hrubbery.
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Well I got the idea.
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From you the last time I was in Paris.
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This thing, this is nothing compared to you, Alison.
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The last time I saw a beard like that, it
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was on.
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A fifty dollars bill. I guess you got a little
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out of hand. I think you trending it as a
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matter of fact, more like your style.
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I'll introduce you to my barber.
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May do me a favorite? Gerald finished this paranol for me.
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I shouldn't be drinking with my foot.
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Well, what's your foot get.
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To do with it? It's the gout you remember I
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wrote you about it a few months ago. I had
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the tactics before I sailed to Europe. Well, how's your
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painting coming along?
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You sold anything you have any I sold my watch.
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As if you didn't know.
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Yes, I know you came to Paris to starve in
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the garrets. But you look pretty well fed to me. Oh,
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speaking of that, I was Harriet. So speaking of which,
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the money I sent you or being well fed? You
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know what I mean?
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How is she still the same?
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No, she's more of the same. She's richer than ever,
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and she's fatter than ever. You also meaner than ever.
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Well, she couldn't be to me.
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Now she lets you grow that beard.
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He still don't see why you wanted to grow it.
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You always made this fun of mine, and I have
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my reason, Gerald. It was part of my plan. Plan
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what plan? Why could kill my mean fat wife? Of course,
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so this is your Garrett. They're pretty luxurious for a
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starving artist.
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Isn't it not bad?
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And all those canvases, some even have paint on them.
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But don't tell me you're really working.
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Oh and I know you're no saint, but I don't
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think you're wicked enough to do what you said strangle
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har it.
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No, Gerald, I'm wicked enough, just not foolish enough. My
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wife's money will be precious little good to me in prison.
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Don't tell me you've got.
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Some kind of a fool proof scheme, owen, because there
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is no such things. And no matter how clever you are,
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there's always someone cleverer.
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In the detective novels raps, that's the time before I
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kick you with my gouty foot. I've got five tons
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of bandage there. It makes quite a weapon.
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I don't understand what you meant about gout.
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It's the very cornerstone of my plans. I have established
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a medical history of the disease. If questions arise later,
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question yeah, about the bandages, Owen.
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I have never seen you like this.
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You're really talking wildly.
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I always crutches and being always crazy, talking about killing people.
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What's not crazy at all. It's a beautiful, rational scheme
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and one.
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That you will be eager to see succeed.
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Ohen, what's happened between you and Harriet? I nothing sudden.
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It's been a gradual change, perhaps the inevitable result of
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advancing years. You know, I was considerably younger than Harriet's
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when we married. Now it seems I am not young enough.
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How wait, are you cutting me off? Are you going
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to stop sending me money? Nothing of the can. As
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long as my income can support it, you can continue
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to develop your artistic talent. And the question is how
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long will my income continue. It's been ten years since
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I married Harriet. The difference between our ages is suddenly
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not so great. Harriet is discovering that there are younger
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men in the world. In fact, there's one particular one
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she's fond of. You're joking. He's a dancing instructor. As
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a matter of fact, she met him when I had
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my first attack of gouts. They couldn't move for a month. Well,
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Harriet indulged yourself in non domestic pleasures, right dancing?
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What to talk about killing her?
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Yailing her carefully, gerud with due regard to the risks involved.
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Actually I thought of the answer when I was lad
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on my back.
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I had plenty of time to think then about what
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a unique phenomenon of the modern age, the magnificent paradox
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of transy travel. Traveling a ship makes it journey in
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some five days, Jeff, plane takes only a few hours.
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But you hate planes.
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You've never been on a plane in your line, That's right.
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They terrify me. Well, what does all this have to
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do with gilling Harry's everything? For you and I, brother
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are going to put that trends atlantic paradox to use.
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We're going to prove that the difference between a ship
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and a plane is a lovely way to commit murder.
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It was almost two weeks later that Gerald and I
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have stood on the dark at Lahab and looked at
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the trim lines of the Empress. She wasn't exactly the
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largest red of the lying at Acker, but to get
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a sanity. She was certainly oblivious. That was fine with me.
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More excitement on the pier, the less noticeable Gerald and
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I were as we made our way toward a deck.
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Our progress was slow, since I never really managed to
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use those crutches. Finally we made our way to stateroom G,
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and then the door finally shut behind it. I collapsed
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on the bunk. I looked at my younger brother's face
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and felt considerably better. Poor Gerald, his complexion was so
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pale white against his reddish beard, now fuller by two
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barbleous weeks. Relaxed, Gerald, I had your confidence one. So
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let's take care of the passports first, and then we
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can call the Stewart.
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All right here they are good.
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Now we have to do with infinite patience, I said
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about the delicate task of removing the small photographs from
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both passports. I was as precise as a jeweler, and
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I squeezed blue from a tiny tube and replaced them,
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one bearded face substituted for the other one. Yes, my
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brother and I look quite a bit alike, despite the
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six year difference in our age. Owen, are you sure
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nobody will notice?
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Now you're not supposed to tap over these paths born as.
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That's true, and I understand it's also a crime to
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kill someone. Nevertheless, that's exactly what I plan to do. Now,
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let's ring for the stewart. The man who words ad
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our ring was a perfect delight, an aging pumpany with
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a thin crest of white hair, the mouth of a pixie,
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and the squirtty eyes of a myopic. The latter, of course,
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was going to be a blessing. Everything all right, was
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delight and yes, everything's just fine. Your name mister Porkins. Hey, yes,
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that's me to Porkins, it's your chirvy Hawkins. I'm afraid
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I'm going to be something of a burden to you
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on this voyage. As you see, i'm an invalid. Oh yes,
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your poor foot share exactly my poor foot. As a result,
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I'm going to be forced to take all my meals
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in here, so you'll have to arrange matters with the
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dining steward. I trust that can be arranged.
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Oh yes, sir, don't you worry none about that time,
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Nor will.
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I be spending any time on deck. The least bit
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of role is extremely painful for me, so I remain
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in my state room until we reach Port Hark. What
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a pity share. It's all right, it's all right. I've
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got a great deal of business to take care of
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between here and New York, and I have enough paperwork
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to keep me busy. So if you'll just bring me
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my meals and keep me from being disturbed, you'll be
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doing your job handsomely. All right, understood?
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Oh understood, Richard.
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I see you later then, mister Porkin, Oh, yes, sure,
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we were lucky. He sees how your cooperative geezeer has.
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But be careful. Always keep your door locked so he
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can never enter without knocking. And every time he brings
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you that tray, make sure that you're either dozing or
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buried in papers. You understand, understood. Well, when I think about,
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well she's going to do in New York while I'm
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on board the ship, I oh, and I'm going to
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do in New York is going to be a pleasure.
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But you're so cold, blunted about it.
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You are going to kill a human being.
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Oh, I never said that. I said I was going
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to kill Harriet.
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Poor Harriet, where she is in her lavish New York townhouse,
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thinking about nothing but her dancing lessons. While aboard the
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SS Empress, two men are plotting her demise. Of course,
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we're not yet certain how Owen Leyton plan to get
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away with murder. Even if he does fly to New
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York and his brother sails in his place.
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We'll simply have to wait until I continue shortly with
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that too. Now let's return to the stateroom G on
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a deck of the Empress.
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It's almost failing time.
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The first all Visitors Ashore warning has been sounded on
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all levels of the great ship, but in Stateroom G.
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Of course, the warning has a special significance because now
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the visitor has become the passenger, and the passenger has.
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Become the visitor. But let mister Owen Layton speak for himself.
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Listen to me, Generald, listen very careful for Pete's sake.
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Oh and we've been over this a hundred times. I'm
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seeing it for the last time. You must do exactly
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what I've said, exactly. The smallest variation can cause total disaster.
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I promise you I won't move from the stateroom.
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I'll be a good little rabbit in my case.
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Yes, that's exactly what worries me. Your rabbit like tendencies.
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Don't expect me to enjoy it.
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Well, I think of all those cute little funnies strolling
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around in the.
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Bank, or just forget they're there, I understand. Let me
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get this bandage off my foot. Oh, and don't forget
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the sixth night. You'll manage, all right, we'll be atty funoughly, yes,
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neither would it been any fun to fill gas tanks
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and hoboken. Not as much fun as living on the
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Left Bank with those Parisian beauties of yours. All right,
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all right, I know we don't forget who's really doing
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the hard work, Junior, including that plane trip tonight. Ooh,
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I mean that's the worst part of it all. Listen,
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how high did those buddy things fly?
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Oh?
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Thirty thousand feet? I think bird's preposterous. Bad The bandages off, now,
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let's get them on you. By the time the next
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tall ashore sounded, the transformation had been made. The bandages
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were on my brother's foot, and the crutches were lying
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snugly beside his book, and I was all set to leave.
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With Gerald's gray tweed coat belted around me, with Gerald's
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hat on my head, I strolled to the visitor's gangplank
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and left the ss Empress to its business. In a way,
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it was fortunate that I dreaded air travel so much.
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I thought of being carried a offf some thirty thousand
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feet inside the monstrous machine part at the Gate seven
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on Olive Field was completely engrossing. For this reason, I
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overcame and he nervousness I might have had upon confronting
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the immigration authority. The official merely glanced at the photograph
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and my passport book, snapped it shut briskly and handed
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it back. Mister Gerald Robin Layton was on his way
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back home. I don't recall much about the flight. I
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remember about ten minutes of sheer terror when we took
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off on what seemed like a ridiculously short runway. I
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know there were several more hours of alternating freight numbness
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and drowsiness, helped by liberal amounts of alcohol. And then
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there was that agonizing half hour following the captain's announcement
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of our approach ingto Kennedy in the National Airport, and
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wonder of wonders, I was safe. The only one in
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danger was my wife. It was midnight in New York,
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and I climbed into a taxi and gave the driver
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on destination Grand Central Station. In the terminal, I deposited
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my single piece of luggage in a public locker and
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took still another taxi to the street where Harriet and
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I had spent the last four years of our marriage.
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The brownstone was an imposing building from the exterior, but
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Harriet's money had made it possible to stoop out the
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interior and transform it into a duplex of cunningly modern design.
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I had spent several happy hours in this house, about
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seven or eighth I think it was one twenty in
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the morning by the time I arrived, and the traffic
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had gone from the quiet streets of Sutton Place. The
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dreet was empty. The shades of the building's opposite had
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all been drawn against the night, and I felt certain
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that no one's me quietly and said the key into
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the lock of the front door. I went quietly upstairs
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in the bedroom. It was empty, but that was no surprise.
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It was Saturday night, because they would be. I was
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in Paris. Therefore, Harriet was on the town, probably in
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the company of her dance instructor friend. In a way,
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I was glad that she was running through to form.
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It helped me feel justified in taking the drastic.
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Course that I was about to take.
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About twenty minutes later, I heard the front door opening again.
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Oh my seat.
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Danced, my little sissies up.
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The night you stare you.
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That's what you're paying me for, missus Lee, that's what
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you think love?
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Speaking of stop it? You mean I don't even get
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a yish good night tomorrow night? Maybe right now?
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I just want to go to sleep.
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And I thought you looked a bit preoccupied tonight.
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Is anything wrong?
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No, unless you count a cable from my husband. Well,
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he's still embarrassed me.
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He sailed on the Empress to be here in another
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five days. That's too bad, and he can stay tomorrow.
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All right, count of the eyes your night time and
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said good night, And then Harriet started up the stairs.
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I picked up the pretty blue vase that adorn her
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dressing table and placed it behind my back. Hello, Harriet,
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and said, what are.
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You doing here?
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You're supposed to be in paril.
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I thought i'd surprise you, darling. So I think they're
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done exactly that.
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But your cable you said you were taking the Empress.
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She won't arrivee a day I.
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Changed my mind about taking me ship. I flew and said,
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you you.
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Were never inside a plane in your life.
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Well, there's always the first time, isn't for everything? But
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why when you're you're so terrified of flying? Because I
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was in a hurry, darlings, I simply couldn't wait to
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see you and do this. It was a shame about
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the bay you s had cost the small fortune. Really
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distasteful part came now, as you may have gathered, I'm
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a manifestidious taste, but when you have five days to lose,
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you can't afford the nine of these. I knew it
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would be easier to lose myself in the region of
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the city where the lower depths are at their lowest.
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Started my britty suits, my Italian loafers, and my continental manners.
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In an old pair of flax and heavy wool shirt,
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I made my way to the Bowery. My first act
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was to join a shambling silent line a vagrance outside
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the clothing Relief agency, and I emerged with a costume
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superiod or anything I could have invented. The mart eaton sweater,
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a double wrested jacket with a shredded lining and a
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thousand unhirnable creases. And then I bought a bottle of
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so turned for ninety eight cents, and readed a bed
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in a hotel called Miller's for seventy five cents a night,
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and then the next day in a steam filled diner
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with a coffee taste that I got a septic. I
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picked up a month stained newspaper from the dirty tile floor.
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There on the second page was a night in which
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gave me an appetite even in that place it said
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woman found murdered in east Side brown Stone. With a
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smaller headline beneath it was even more delicious. It read
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dancing teacher held as suspect. It wasn't something I planned
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or expected, but well why not?
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Why not?
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I think i'd a said all that coffee? And then
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the five days were over. It wasn't very far from
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the Miller Hotel to the docks. The first glimpse I
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had of the empress beautiful bow on horizon thrilled me
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in a way I had never known before. But I
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couldn't stand hiout an admirers. I had things to do.
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I made my way as unobtrusively as possible. In fact
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the Grand Central Terminal. I removed my luggage from the locker,
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and then in the washroom I shaved and changed into
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clean clothes. Then I went down to Peer sixteen to
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greet the arriving Empress. I knew that Gerald would be
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among the lats of the passengers to appear, But then
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there he was, wearing my green plasktop coat with a
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collar full around his throat. I'm wearing my humber hanging
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low over his eyes. And he was using my crutches too,
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not very well, but with his foot so heavily bandaged,
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he still made a convincing cripple. Owen, owen over here.
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You know, for a minute, I didn't think you didn't
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think you'd make it?
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Well?
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Well I was it? How did everything go?
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Fine?
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Fine?
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Look?
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Where can I get rid of these crutches?
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I still never mind the crutches? But if I obscured
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mister Pawkins, did you see him before you left the ship?
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No?
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No, I managed to avoid you.
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I didn't even tipping either.
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Just as you said, good, I'll get into that car.
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We can do your car. It's a rental car to
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get any sign so we can switch clothes.
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A rental car.
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Well, I wasn't taking the chance. I read it it
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in your name, Junior. Don't worry about it. You really
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thought of everything, Owen. I have to give you credit,
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or just give me my clothes and that bandage and fast,
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and so we made the switch as before. By the
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time I stepped out of the resid automobile, I was
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dressed in the hamburg and the green plaid coat, and
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the bandagers were back where he had originated. In fact,
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the crutches seemed like old friends. As I hobbled back
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to the entrance of pair at sixteen, I spotted the
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ship's petty officer emerging from the passenger exits.
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We'll find me there, Yes, sir, What can I do
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for it?
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What it is?
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It's rather embarrassing.
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You see.
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There's a steward that I meant to take care of
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before I left my stateroom. He was very kind to me,
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me Parkins. He's an old fellow, very nice. I hated
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to miss him when I left, or somehow I did,
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and all the exactly Yes, old mister Parkins was born
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than pleased. When I handed them for two fifty dollars bills,
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they were actually tears in his eyes.
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Oh this is most generous, most generously.
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You took very good care of me, Parkins. I know
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I was a usace.
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Oh no, sir, you were't never what I aren't even
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so you should.
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Well there you brought me all my meals and so forth,
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didn't you.
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Well.
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I was glad to do it like that, to be
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a service, and I hope you'll be back on the
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Empress with the shooter.
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Games tend to be Parkins, Yes, you can be sure
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of that. As soon as I knew that mister Pawkins
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was remembered properly and that he remembered me properly, I
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knew that everything was going to be just trying. I
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told my younger brother to drive his new car to
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the village, find himself a small apartment in Lailo, and
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I took a taxi to my home. I knew there
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would be a company waiting for me.
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Mister Layton, Yes, I'm Old Layton.
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Who are you? Name?
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Is Litis firing?
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Mister late New York Police Department. Police wants the matter?
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My husband robbed or something.
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I'm sorry we couldn't meet you at the ship. We
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knew you were coming back today, but we thought it
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would be easier to meet you here and.
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Uh break the news to here. What news? What are
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you talking about?
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Bad news? I'm afraid maybe we uh.
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We better go inside. Yes, him, of course I knew
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exactly what the bad news was going to be. Now,
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all they had to do was to keep from laughing
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up loud.
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We seem to have been witnessed to the perfect murder.
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Owen Leyton can't be blamed for the murder of his wife,
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and for the most natural reason in the world, Owen
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Layton wasn't in New York when his wife was murdered.
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Owen was on the high seas.
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Just ask mister Porkins or anyone else aboard the SS Empress.
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But before we congratulate mister Layton on his cleverness, Owen
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Layton is a happy man today.
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Despite the fact that he is all alone in the
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reconverted brownstone on Ston Place.
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The smile never seems to leave his face, even as
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he hobbles towards the front door to answer the insistent chimes.
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His bandaged foot and crutches don't seem to bother him
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in the least. In fact, one has the impression that,
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despite the tragic loss of his wife.
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Mister Layton, even mister Lighton.
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Oh hey, oh it's all right, I hope, Yes, the gouge.
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You were a bit too broken up about that terrible
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thing that happened to your wife.
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So I'm sure you don't blame me, Lieutenant, to the
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great shock. Here, let me take your raincoat rating outside
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of it.
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Yeah, frankly, it was my decision not to.
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Send a radiogram to the ship about your wife's death.
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I mean, it didn't seem right to break.
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The news to you that way, but I was very
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considered of you, Lieutenant.
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We knew you were aboard the Empress because of your cable.
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Yes, but you were right not to tell me when
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I was aboard. It would have been very helpless feeling
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knowing that there was nothing I could do about it.
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That's what I thought too.
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At any rate, I suppose you've had some time to
489
00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:14.039
well think about what may have happened.
490
00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:18.880
No, old Lieutenant, the truth is, I still don't understand
491
00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:23.240
that man who killed her. What was his name again,
492
00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:27.559
Douglas Denton started his real names. He called himself that
493
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:27.839
at the.
494
00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:30.960
Dancing school, but he was born Bernard you Bank, I
495
00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:34.119
uh I take it you didn't know, mister Denton.
496
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:36.319
Oh no, I never met the man before in my life.
497
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:39.359
And why would you want to kill my poor Harry.
498
00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:41.920
Well, actually he's still denying that he did.
499
00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:45.000
How can he from what I read in the newspaper,
500
00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:49.720
Well you need to call him attended. Well, no, not
501
00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:50.559
quite that good.
502
00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:54.640
And we knew that he'd been uh well, he and
503
00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:57.000
your wife had been seeing each other during your visits abroad,
504
00:29:57.759 --> 00:29:59.640
and that they'd seen each other that Saturday night she
505
00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:02.480
was kid. In fact, he was seen in the vicinity
506
00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:05.799
of your house by several witnesses, not more than ten
507
00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:07.880
minutes from the time when we estimated that she was
508
00:30:09.079 --> 00:30:09.880
budging to death.
509
00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.400
I'm sorry, that's a little too graphic, I know, is
510
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.279
all right, Lieutenant. I want to know that details, I
511
00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:20.200
really do. But I want detail we.
512
00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:22.799
Don't know is why he would have done such a thing.51300:30:23.400 --> 00:30:25.319
I mean, frankly, we have, mister Dent. In fact, that51400:30:25.359 --> 00:30:27.279
there rather small time, you.51500:30:27.359 --> 00:30:31.000
Know, giggle. I'm sorry to tell you that too. So51600:30:31.160 --> 00:30:35.000
it's all right. I'm sure Harriet wasn't to blame. I'm51700:30:35.039 --> 00:30:38.519
sure that that man just did whatever Gigglows did and51800:30:39.119 --> 00:30:41.480
made a fool of her. But if your wife do51900:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.160
that sort of thing often, I don't know. I suppose52000:30:45.240 --> 00:30:46.960
he's made a few mistakes.52100:30:46.519 --> 00:30:48.359
Which was handled well.52200:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.240
Now if you could be more specific, you know, Lieutenant,52300:30:52.039 --> 00:30:56.319
I'm sorry. I want Harriet's killer punished to tesn't folly,52400:30:56.400 --> 00:30:58.920
but not at the expense of scandalizing my wife.52500:30:59.279 --> 00:31:01.279
I'm afraid that's it. Can't a little be easy to avoid.52600:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.240
We know she was having an affair with mister Danley.52700:31:04.240 --> 00:31:05.240
He's as meted that himself.52800:31:06.160 --> 00:31:08.039
But I don't give money reason to break a vase52900:31:08.079 --> 00:31:08.640
over her head.53000:31:08.759 --> 00:31:12.319
Yes, un as she had decided to end the affair,53100:31:12.400 --> 00:31:16.599
of course. Wow, it's one possible theory. Of course, didn't53200:31:16.640 --> 00:31:19.400
you say you found my cabled her by not coming53300:31:19.440 --> 00:31:22.119
home on the Empress. Yeah, that's right. Harriet didn't know53400:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.079
I expected to return from Europe so soon. Perhaps when53500:31:26.119 --> 00:31:29.200
she informed her jig her friend with the dent and53600:31:29.279 --> 00:31:33.119
he got angry. Yeah, that's possible too, So he might53700:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.960
have just she acted impulsively. Yes, Lieutenant, I'm sure it53800:31:38.079 --> 00:31:42.359
happened just that way. They quarreled in your bedroom very well,53900:31:42.440 --> 00:31:45.599
in our bedroom. Yes, they quarreled and he picked up54000:31:45.640 --> 00:31:50.279
the vase. He struck her somehow. I can't believe it54100:31:50.440 --> 00:31:55.359
was cold blooded or premeditated. No matter what the man is, Lieutenant,54200:31:56.119 --> 00:32:04.519
I hope the law isn't too harsh with him. I'll54300:32:04.599 --> 00:32:09.599
tell you what wasn't easy. There was a waiting. I54400:32:09.640 --> 00:32:12.039
had to wait for the outcome of two legal actions,54500:32:12.599 --> 00:32:14.400
the verdicts of both the criminal.54600:32:14.079 --> 00:32:15.079
And the probate courts.54700:32:16.160 --> 00:32:18.960
But I had every confidence that human interests and doctice54800:32:19.000 --> 00:32:24.240
would be done. And then one night, a little more54900:32:24.319 --> 00:32:31.160
than two weeks after my return, Hello, oh, eat Hila,55000:32:33.279 --> 00:32:34.000
I beg your pardon.55100:32:36.400 --> 00:32:38.319
I feel terrible. I'm not telling you for this, but55200:32:38.440 --> 00:32:39.279
I just found out.55300:32:39.119 --> 00:32:42.279
What happened through the whole thing in the paper that issue.55400:32:43.000 --> 00:32:45.279
Oh must be in a state.55500:32:45.960 --> 00:32:47.519
Are you sure you're calling the right number?55600:32:48.319 --> 00:32:51.279
Of course I am, at least that's the number in55700:32:51.319 --> 00:32:55.119
the terrible book eight one five five five five five.55800:32:55.480 --> 00:32:58.279
Well you certainly have the right number, my but that55900:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.039
I believe you have the wrong Bogy stop it.56000:33:01.519 --> 00:33:03.839
You'll be godly oenly with the directory.56100:33:04.160 --> 00:33:05.359
Oh that doesn't mean very much.56200:33:06.119 --> 00:33:06.759
See what is this?56300:33:07.559 --> 00:33:08.319
What are you trying to do?56400:33:09.000 --> 00:33:10.960
I'm simply trying to find out who you are and56500:33:11.599 --> 00:33:12.640
why you think you know me.56600:33:14.160 --> 00:33:16.440
Wait a minute, is there someone there with you?56700:33:16.960 --> 00:33:18.240
Is that what all the dog talks about?56800:33:18.440 --> 00:33:19.240
No, I'm alone.56900:33:19.960 --> 00:33:21.200
Wouldn't want me a big cat.57000:33:24.200 --> 00:33:26.200
I told you not to try any of the board57100:33:26.279 --> 00:33:27.079
romance stuff on me.57200:33:27.160 --> 00:33:27.960
I won't stand for it.57300:33:29.799 --> 00:33:32.920
Did you say shipboard romance? You hurt me?57400:33:33.960 --> 00:33:36.240
I warned you that I wasn't interested in the friendly57500:33:36.279 --> 00:33:38.240
little kid of the gang playing kind of stuff.57600:33:39.759 --> 00:33:44.160
Listen, if you're you're not talking about it. The ship57700:33:44.240 --> 00:33:45.519
you mean isn't the Empress?57800:33:45.759 --> 00:33:47.200
Of course, it's the Empress.57900:33:47.960 --> 00:33:53.200
Share owed you idiot what you see? So you mean?58000:33:53.559 --> 00:33:55.599
I'm just sorry, so mixed up about things right now?58100:33:56.720 --> 00:33:58.680
You can't be so upset that you forget about me.58200:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.680
Right from the way you talked about your wife, she didn't.58300:34:02.440 --> 00:34:06.839
Mean a thing to you, ook, Sheila. I can't talk58400:34:06.880 --> 00:34:07.559
anymore right now.58500:34:07.640 --> 00:34:09.079
You're not brushing me off easily.58600:34:09.360 --> 00:34:11.639
Oh when I warn you, I'm not trying to brush58700:34:11.679 --> 00:34:15.760
you off. It's just that I'm having visitors, Sheila, important58800:34:15.800 --> 00:34:16.880
people of business.58900:34:16.800 --> 00:34:19.559
Right tomorrow, Man, tomorrow.59000:34:19.960 --> 00:34:22.519
I'm not sure I can make it tomorrow either. I59100:34:22.599 --> 00:34:24.880
may have to go out of town. There are things59200:34:24.920 --> 00:34:26.440
to settle regarding my wife's state.59300:34:26.760 --> 00:34:30.119
There are things to sit all right between us.59400:34:32.119 --> 00:34:48.559
Oh God, dear god, he's ruined everything everything, picking up,59500:34:49.199 --> 00:34:54.440
pick up my phone. You're miserable, Garrel, it's your brother,59600:34:54.639 --> 00:34:58.880
Oh high, never better, never better.59700:35:00.480 --> 00:35:01.599
You're farewell well.59800:35:02.239 --> 00:35:04.880
Why shouldn't that be well? I just had a lovely59900:35:05.079 --> 00:35:08.440
chest with a no doubt charming young lady. Her name60000:35:08.519 --> 00:35:08.960
is Sheila.60100:35:09.840 --> 00:35:11.039
Isn't that a lovely name?60200:35:11.199 --> 00:35:11.559
Sheila?60300:35:12.000 --> 00:35:12.159
Oh?60400:35:13.079 --> 00:35:14.159
Is that name familiar to you?60500:35:14.519 --> 00:35:14.639
Oh?60600:35:14.760 --> 00:35:16.960
No, before you say anything, when you listen to me.60700:35:17.119 --> 00:35:19.840
Yes, that's why I'm calling to listen to you, to60800:35:19.880 --> 00:35:21.840
see if there's anything you can say, anything at all,60900:35:22.519 --> 00:35:24.840
to will mitigate my intention of coming right over there61000:35:24.880 --> 00:35:25.599
and sprangling you.61100:35:25.920 --> 00:35:28.320
You've got to understand how and why, Owen, I was a.61200:35:28.360 --> 00:35:29.440
Prisoner in that state room.61300:35:29.559 --> 00:35:32.599
Virtual prisoner, Yes, and that was the idea.61400:35:32.960 --> 00:35:35.840
I told you never to leave that room, never do61500:35:36.119 --> 00:35:38.239
so much as poke your ugly head out of the door.61600:35:38.639 --> 00:35:40.880
It's easy enough for the first stage, yer, old, and61700:35:41.000 --> 00:35:42.480
for almost twenty four hours to that.61800:35:42.639 --> 00:35:44.440
How many other women did you take up with?61900:35:44.960 --> 00:35:45.280
Owen?62000:35:45.440 --> 00:35:48.400
She was the only one of thebsolutely, the only one62100:35:48.400 --> 00:35:49.440
I had anything to do with.62200:35:49.880 --> 00:35:51.920
If I know you, you had plenty to do with her.62300:35:52.199 --> 00:35:54.119
Oh, I couldn't live like a hermit for Pete's sake.62400:35:54.639 --> 00:35:56.800
I can't believe what I'm hearing. I can't.62500:35:57.599 --> 00:36:00.360
You knew how important it was convince her that you.62600:36:00.400 --> 00:36:01.719
Were me when I did that?62700:36:01.960 --> 00:36:03.400
Oh, I told her I was you.62800:36:03.880 --> 00:36:05.519
Hey, that was clever.62900:36:05.719 --> 00:36:07.199
I don't know she thinks I am you.63000:36:07.320 --> 00:36:09.280
Oh No, look the fat that he telephoned you.63100:36:09.320 --> 00:36:10.239
And doesn't that prove it?63200:36:10.599 --> 00:36:10.719
Oh?63300:36:10.800 --> 00:36:13.320
Yes, said proves it completely, Owen.63400:36:13.960 --> 00:36:16.360
Oh, it was really going crazy in that tiny roof.63500:36:16.519 --> 00:36:19.760
I took just one little stroll on deck one night.63600:36:20.039 --> 00:36:20.920
And met Sheila.63700:36:21.280 --> 00:36:23.679
I swear, I swear that I never know she tried63800:36:23.719 --> 00:36:24.440
to get in touch.63900:36:24.280 --> 00:36:27.360
With this Your girlfriend. Sheila is in New York right now.64000:36:28.039 --> 00:36:32.000
She's demanding to see me for you me. What I64100:36:32.079 --> 00:36:34.800
mean is she's she's read about Harriet's death. She knows64200:36:34.880 --> 00:36:39.159
that you, she knows that I. But she knows that64300:36:39.280 --> 00:36:43.119
Owen lateness free and unencumbered and will soon be very,64400:36:43.360 --> 00:36:46.760
very rich. I am planning to hear that own, haven't64500:36:47.920 --> 00:36:51.000
your friend? Sheila isn't going to give up that easily.64600:36:51.119 --> 00:36:53.599
She's going to track me down. She's going to try64700:36:53.639 --> 00:36:56.559
to renew her this shipboard romance. And do you know64800:36:56.719 --> 00:36:57.880
what will happen when she does?64900:36:58.400 --> 00:36:58.440
What?65000:36:58.880 --> 00:37:01.639
Think about it, Gerald, She's going to take one look65100:37:01.679 --> 00:37:06.599
at me and I'll be cooked, roasted, fried. She'll know65200:37:06.679 --> 00:37:09.480
I wasn't aboard the Empress. She'll know that she spent65300:37:10.239 --> 00:37:14.119
all that glorious week with another man. And how long65400:37:14.159 --> 00:37:15.960
do you suppose it'll take for her to put two65500:37:16.000 --> 00:37:17.039
and two together on?65600:37:17.920 --> 00:37:18.719
Couldn't you put her off?65700:37:19.239 --> 00:37:22.760
Couldn't you leave her feet? Well, if he should leave town, if.65800:37:22.639 --> 00:37:23.360
You could get away.65900:37:23.559 --> 00:37:26.920
That the only thing that's occurred to me too. If66000:37:26.960 --> 00:37:27.440
I left it.66100:37:27.519 --> 00:37:30.960
Once, you could always go back to Paris. You always66200:37:31.000 --> 00:37:34.039
send it your favor. Today, then give what I saw66300:37:34.079 --> 00:37:38.119
in the papers that the Empress is sailing again tomorrow66400:37:38.639 --> 00:37:39.199
for Lahar.66500:37:45.320 --> 00:37:48.559
For the first time in my life, I wasn't looking66600:37:48.599 --> 00:37:51.360
forward to a sea voyage, and I knew that my66700:37:51.440 --> 00:37:54.679
idiotic younger brother had been no other choice. In the66800:37:54.800 --> 00:37:56.599
minute I was off the phone with him, I was66900:37:56.639 --> 00:37:59.239
on again, this time to my very obliging travel agent,67000:38:00.039 --> 00:38:04.119
who told me that passage aboard the Empress was indeed possible. So,67100:38:04.239 --> 00:38:06.760
for the first time in my shipboard travels, I couldn't67200:38:06.800 --> 00:38:10.960
get a state room, couldn't even do better than b Deck. Well,67300:38:11.000 --> 00:38:13.639
it was an indignity I was forced to accept.67400:38:14.800 --> 00:38:15.559
Me for this time.67500:38:16.360 --> 00:38:20.639
My cabin steward wasn't an amiable gentleman like mister Parkins,67600:38:20.760 --> 00:38:24.239
but a gruff, uncommunicative type who made no promises of67700:38:24.360 --> 00:38:28.360
devoted service. Right then, I wouldn't require much service. For67800:38:28.480 --> 00:38:31.719
one thing, I no longer needed my bandages and trudges.67900:38:32.440 --> 00:38:35.440
So as far as the world is concerned, my troublesome68000:38:35.599 --> 00:38:36.519
gout was healed.68100:38:36.840 --> 00:38:40.719
Oh me, yeah, shoot the gentleman who sailed with us68200:38:40.719 --> 00:38:43.719
a couple of weeks ago, that Paulkins Chap.68300:38:44.599 --> 00:38:47.639
Oh oh, yes, that's right. You were the officer who68400:38:47.679 --> 00:38:50.000
helped me find the steward. If everything worked out all68500:38:50.119 --> 00:38:54.159
right there, Yes, everything went fine. Unfortunately I couldn't get68600:38:54.199 --> 00:38:57.079
such good accommodations to this trip. It's ashamed, sir.68700:38:57.719 --> 00:38:59.440
But then I don't think we'll have as easy a68800:38:59.519 --> 00:39:01.960
crossing of this time. Why not all a bit of68900:39:02.039 --> 00:39:02.800
rough weather ahead?69000:39:02.840 --> 00:39:08.760
They say, oh, fine, that's all I need. But rough69100:39:08.840 --> 00:39:12.039
weather ahead or not, that's for that afternoon. The Empress69200:39:12.079 --> 00:39:15.440
pulled slowly away from the pier, and I admit that.69300:39:15.559 --> 00:39:21.599
I breathed a heavy sigh of relief. That evening I69400:39:21.760 --> 00:39:24.239
was taking for dinner when someone knocked on my door.69500:39:25.280 --> 00:39:33.079
Oh who who is it? That must be unfriendly neighborhood steward. Yeah, hello,69600:39:33.800 --> 00:39:36.960
Oh I'm sorry. Oh was this something you wanted?69700:39:37.039 --> 00:39:37.519
Miss Well?69800:39:37.639 --> 00:39:38.519
I had made a mistake.69900:39:38.760 --> 00:39:40.719
I thought this was mister Layton's Kevin.70000:39:41.000 --> 00:39:42.400
What it is? I'm mister Layton.70100:39:42.880 --> 00:39:44.719
Oh but you're not mister Owen Layton.70200:39:44.880 --> 00:39:46.440
And that's the party I was looking for it, But70300:39:46.559 --> 00:39:47.719
I am Owen Layton.70400:39:49.079 --> 00:39:54.000
Well that's an interesting coincidence. I mean, two people would70500:39:54.000 --> 00:39:57.239
have the same names and even look a little bit alike.70600:39:58.320 --> 00:39:58.599
Oh.70700:40:00.039 --> 00:40:03.360
Well, the Owen Layton I mean is quite a bit younger.70800:40:04.159 --> 00:40:06.400
I don't know what in the world you're talking about.70900:40:06.639 --> 00:40:09.440
I saw your name on the passenger list. But the man,71000:40:09.559 --> 00:40:13.719
I mean, well, a bunch of height and Hi's beers71100:40:13.760 --> 00:40:14.079
like yours.71200:40:14.119 --> 00:40:19.280
But he's well, he's not you, right, And who are you?71300:40:19.760 --> 00:40:21.960
My name is Sheila, Sheila Roy Sheila.71400:40:22.239 --> 00:40:24.719
I met Owen Layton two weeks ago, right on the ship.71500:40:26.079 --> 00:40:31.000
And now suddenly there's another Owen Layton going the other way.71600:40:31.119 --> 00:40:31.159
That.71700:40:32.480 --> 00:40:34.079
Oh, there's something very fishy going on.71800:40:34.119 --> 00:40:36.079
Here your mistake, and I swear your mistake.71900:40:36.159 --> 00:40:37.679
I'm mister whatever your name is.72000:40:37.960 --> 00:40:39.079
I don't know what this is all about.72100:40:39.239 --> 00:40:41.760
I don't know why there are two Owen Layton's going72200:40:41.840 --> 00:40:42.920
back and forth on the ship.72300:40:43.039 --> 00:40:46.000
Well, well, but's so strange about that. I mean, so,72400:40:46.079 --> 00:40:47.679
why are you going back and forth me?72500:40:49.159 --> 00:40:51.679
Because I have to, because it's my job.72600:40:52.320 --> 00:40:55.840
I'm a social director. I mean, you worked on the Embers,72700:40:56.000 --> 00:40:56.400
that's right.72800:40:57.800 --> 00:40:59.920
Right now, I'm gonna work.72900:41:00.039 --> 00:41:00.880
I'm finding out what.73000:41:00.960 --> 00:41:01.800
This is all about.73100:41:06.159 --> 00:41:06.280
Oh.73200:41:06.360 --> 00:41:09.000
I stood rooted to the cabin floor, listening to the73300:41:09.079 --> 00:41:13.239
melancholy sound of his ship's whistled, warning the seas ahead73400:41:13.360 --> 00:41:18.039
that we were on our way, heading straight for troubled waters.73500:41:24.239 --> 00:41:26.440
As you have heard, Owen.73600:41:26.239 --> 00:41:32.239
Leyton's perfect murder had the customary imperfection. But at least73700:41:32.320 --> 00:41:35.679
he'll be able to enjoy one last ocean voyage before73800:41:35.719 --> 00:41:39.760
the authorities send him up the river. Isn't it nice73900:41:40.199 --> 00:41:45.400
to see justice triumph? Beg your pardon to hear justice triumph.74000:41:56.639 --> 00:42:02.239
We hope you enjoyed tonight's voyage, Dan Acle and Ian Martin,74100:42:02.519 --> 00:42:04.840
My production was under the direction of Himaun.74200:42:06.159 --> 00:42:06.679
This is E. J.74300:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.800
Marshall inviting you to rip a mystery theater for I'm74400:42:09.840 --> 00:42:11.280
sure in the macabre.74500:42:12.039 --> 00:42:56.559
Until next time, pleasant dream, Oh, my.74600:42:56.760 --> 00:43:00.960
Dear, no worries. I'll make up enough pot right now.74700:43:02.400 --> 00:43:06.599
It'll steep and then warm you right up. Everything is74800:43:06.760 --> 00:43:10.800
certainly as good as it could hope to be.74900:43:12.760 --> 00:43:13.000
Well.75000:43:13.760 --> 00:43:19.480
I suppose we'll find some more jolly old cheer, or75100:43:19.519 --> 00:43:27.440
would it be jolly old fear? Oh, here you go,75200:43:29.000 --> 00:43:32.079
a hot cup of tea on a cold winter's night,75300:43:33.440 --> 00:43:38.559
just for you, So warm, so good, and not.75400:43:39.679 --> 00:43:46.000
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man trapped in his bed by a crate the most deadly,76500:44:43.119 --> 00:44:47.400
poisonous snake in the world, as Raoul Dahl tells it76600:44:47.480 --> 00:44:51.440
in his terrifying story Poison.76700:44:58.760 --> 00:44:59.039
Listen.76800:44:59.119 --> 00:45:01.320
It's an awful good story. But to get the points,76900:45:01.320 --> 00:45:03.960
you got to understand about two things. What kind of77000:45:04.039 --> 00:45:06.360
a guy Harry Pope was and what kind of a77100:45:06.440 --> 00:45:11.800
snake a crate is? First, the crate you spell it kriait.77200:45:12.360 --> 00:45:13.000
They're in India.77300:45:13.039 --> 00:45:15.679
The crates are little snakes, sometimes not more than three77400:45:15.719 --> 00:45:16.559
or four inches long.77500:45:17.239 --> 00:45:18.679
You have to look real careful if you're going to77600:45:18.719 --> 00:45:19.280
see one at all.77700:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.880
Really almost like a worm, except that it's the most77800:45:22.920 --> 00:45:24.119
poisonous snake in the world.77900:45:24.760 --> 00:45:26.440
It can bite faster than a bumblebee.78000:45:26.440 --> 00:45:28.159
And when it does, you go off like a firecracker,78100:45:28.400 --> 00:45:30.800
swell up like a hot water bottle, and then fly78200:45:30.960 --> 00:45:37.519
the angels. Crate, tiny little snake. Now about Harry, Harry Pope,78300:45:38.559 --> 00:45:42.119
funny guy. He had it in for anybody who wasn't American,78400:45:42.320 --> 00:45:45.840
who didn't speak his language. He called him foreigners, and78500:45:46.440 --> 00:45:49.039
he called him that army word guk. Didn't matter if78600:45:49.039 --> 00:45:52.559
they were French, Italian or Japanese. Gook foreigner, he'd say,78700:45:53.119 --> 00:45:57.360
it's kind of buggy. On the subject, funny guy, Well,78800:45:57.440 --> 00:45:59.159
Harry and me. We got sent out to Bombay in78900:45:59.239 --> 00:46:02.400
this construction job, and that's where the trouble started. You see,79000:46:02.440 --> 00:46:04.320
except for the two of us, the crew was made79100:46:04.400 --> 00:46:07.800
up of local boys, Hindus and Moslems, four of them.79200:46:08.519 --> 00:46:10.199
Harry was like a cat and a room full of79300:46:10.280 --> 00:46:13.119
dogs had his back up every minute. After a month79400:46:13.199 --> 00:46:15.440
or so, it began to wear him out. So his79500:46:15.519 --> 00:46:18.400
appetite wasn't right. He was smoking three and four packs79600:46:18.440 --> 00:46:20.519
a day and he wasn't getting asleep. I used to79700:46:20.559 --> 00:46:22.519
try to straighten him out, used to tell him he79800:46:22.679 --> 00:46:23.000
was wrong.79900:46:24.199 --> 00:46:27.119
There's no use talking, I said, Harry. They're all good boys.80000:46:27.159 --> 00:46:28.159
Why don't you take it easy?80100:46:28.239 --> 00:46:28.559
Wood are?80200:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.000
You and I are good friends. But a lot of80300:46:30.079 --> 00:46:32.639
things you just don't understand. You ought to take it easy, Harry.80400:46:32.800 --> 00:46:35.119
They're all human beings, just like you and me. The80500:46:35.320 --> 00:46:38.719
goots were they foreign us. Look it, Think about it80600:46:38.800 --> 00:46:41.719
this way. How'd you like your sister to marry one?80700:46:41.800 --> 00:46:43.559
I haven't got a sister, And anyway, you've asked me80800:46:43.639 --> 00:46:45.760
that before. Yeah, you see, you want to make the80900:46:45.840 --> 00:46:46.880
effort to understand.81000:46:52.239 --> 00:46:54.480
Well, that's how it was with Harry, and you know81100:46:54.599 --> 00:46:58.519
about the create Now about what happened was June, the81200:46:58.599 --> 00:47:00.679
last year was hot in Stay, even though.81300:47:00.599 --> 00:47:02.559
The sun was down. I was putting on a clean81400:47:02.639 --> 00:47:03.360
shirt to go out.81500:47:06.480 --> 00:47:08.639
Oh man, I'm really beat tonight.81600:47:10.480 --> 00:47:11.440
What's of you, Woodie?81700:47:12.239 --> 00:47:13.960
What's the clean shirt for going out?81800:47:14.559 --> 00:47:15.360
What do you got day?81900:47:15.800 --> 00:47:18.880
No, I thought i'd stop off a doctor Ganderbys. He82000:47:18.960 --> 00:47:20.599
promised he'd show me the photos he made down on82100:47:20.639 --> 00:47:24.079
the leper column. Gandab, Yeah, these photos are supposed to82200:47:24.079 --> 00:47:26.800
be pretty interesting. Step, how about Hary? Would you like82300:47:26.840 --> 00:47:31.440
to come along, Gandaby. He's a hindoo, a gook foreigner.82400:47:32.239 --> 00:47:35.440
I don't want to spend no evening with a gook. Shoot,82500:47:35.599 --> 00:47:41.719
not old Harry. So I went off to the doctors82600:47:41.760 --> 00:47:44.000
and Harry went to bed with the detective's story. I82700:47:44.079 --> 00:47:47.280
had a very interesting evening. Later, Old Harry was plenty82800:47:47.320 --> 00:47:53.440
sorry that he stayed home. I didn't leave the doctors82900:47:53.519 --> 00:47:56.000
until around midnight, and when I drove back through the83000:47:56.039 --> 00:47:59.719
Sleeping city it was very quiet and dark. I thought83100:47:59.719 --> 00:48:02.719
about the pictures of the lepers I had seen. I83200:48:02.840 --> 00:48:04.800
remember thinking, I hope Harry is awaking because I'd like83300:48:04.880 --> 00:48:06.119
to tell him about those pictures.83400:48:10.960 --> 00:48:12.880
And when I got home, I was glad to see83500:48:12.920 --> 00:48:14.480
the light in his room was still burning.83600:48:15.920 --> 00:48:17.159
Harry you up.83700:48:18.920 --> 00:48:21.679
I didn't get an answer, probably fell asleep reading.83800:48:23.119 --> 00:48:24.639
Harry you awake?83900:48:24.719 --> 00:48:25.000
Harry?84000:48:26.360 --> 00:48:27.840
Would he stop?84100:48:28.920 --> 00:48:30.039
Harry boy? What's the matter?84200:48:30.159 --> 00:48:30.400
Kish?84300:48:31.320 --> 00:48:31.920
Stop with it?84400:48:33.199 --> 00:48:36.440
Take off your shoes or I couldn't tell what was84500:48:36.480 --> 00:48:38.199
the matter, but I knew he was serious whatever it84600:48:38.280 --> 00:48:43.760
was about, so I did what he wanted. He was84700:48:43.840 --> 00:48:46.639
in bed under his netting with a reading light on84800:48:47.079 --> 00:48:50.239
his book on the floor. He lay quite still, and84900:48:50.400 --> 00:48:53.440
the sheet came halfway up his chest. He was wearing85000:48:53.519 --> 00:48:55.840
those corny pajamas of his with the big checks all85100:48:55.880 --> 00:48:58.679
over him, and the pajamas were soaked in the sweat85200:48:58.719 --> 00:49:01.679
that was rolling off his face. He laid like a corpse,85300:49:01.719 --> 00:49:03.639
flat on his back, with his hands lying dead on85400:49:03.719 --> 00:49:06.199
the bed. His hands, even the backs of 'em, were sweating.85500:49:07.000 --> 00:49:08.920
His eyes looked like he was watching. Somebody saw his85600:49:09.079 --> 00:49:09.440
leg off.85700:49:10.159 --> 00:49:11.960
Wo he it's a matter of boy.85800:49:11.920 --> 00:49:16.400
Said crepe, creep?85900:49:17.000 --> 00:49:18.679
Where from here? With six?86000:49:19.920 --> 00:49:21.360
Where where's the crape?86100:49:21.880 --> 00:49:22.239
And he.86200:49:23.719 --> 00:49:24.360
Under the netting?86300:49:24.639 --> 00:49:26.719
No, under the sheet?86400:49:28.360 --> 00:49:29.039
Where did bite you?86500:49:29.960 --> 00:49:31.679
It hasn't yet.86600:49:32.840 --> 00:49:33.719
Where under the sheet?86700:49:34.079 --> 00:49:34.800
Right on my bed?86800:49:35.760 --> 00:49:37.360
Holy sun, you.86900:49:37.440 --> 00:49:39.519
Canna wake it up? If you don't cut out there, Yellow.87000:49:41.199 --> 00:49:41.960
How did it get in there?87100:49:42.039 --> 00:49:44.920
I don't know. Come up under the net. I guess87200:49:46.320 --> 00:49:47.760
it's been in the bed all day.87300:49:49.559 --> 00:49:50.519
Is it a big one?87400:49:50.920 --> 00:49:54.880
No, create don't have to be big. Looked about three87500:49:54.960 --> 00:49:57.559
or four inches. Come along my side.87600:49:58.440 --> 00:50:02.679
I didn't move, went under the sheet, one of them fools,87700:50:03.360 --> 00:50:05.159
one of the breaks of my belly.87800:50:05.920 --> 00:50:07.000
How long ago did it come?87900:50:07.519 --> 00:50:11.559
Ours? Hours and hours and days and weeks. I've been88000:50:11.599 --> 00:50:13.000
waiting a year for you to get home.88100:50:13.639 --> 00:50:14.480
Must be sleeping in there.88200:50:14.559 --> 00:50:16.960
Huh, yeah, I think you do.88300:50:17.039 --> 00:50:19.760
Is I now listen, Harry? Maybe it'll wake up and88400:50:19.800 --> 00:50:21.360
go away, go home or something.88500:50:21.440 --> 00:50:21.599
Huh.88600:50:21.719 --> 00:50:24.719
I can't wait. I've been lying here scared. I moved88700:50:24.760 --> 00:50:25.679
suddenly wake it up?88800:50:25.960 --> 00:50:27.199
Yeah, you're scared a little bite.88900:50:27.480 --> 00:50:29.480
I've been lying here scared to death of cough.89000:50:29.880 --> 00:50:31.159
Right, don't you worry about a thing, Harry.89100:50:31.159 --> 00:50:32.920
I know just what to do where you're going? Would89200:50:32.960 --> 00:50:34.039
he don't leave me?89300:50:35.800 --> 00:50:37.599
The thing was to be ready to cauterize the bite89400:50:37.679 --> 00:50:39.599
right away. I'd heard about one method.89500:50:39.760 --> 00:50:41.239
I went out to the kitchen and I got a89600:50:41.280 --> 00:50:42.920
whole fist full of those big kitchen matches, and I89700:50:42.920 --> 00:50:44.880
took them back to the bedroom, arranged them all with89800:50:44.960 --> 00:50:46.920
their heads together, held them like you to hold a torch.89900:50:47.119 --> 00:50:47.840
What do you can do?90000:50:48.000 --> 00:50:50.000
What are the matches for? I listen, Harry, here's how90100:50:50.039 --> 00:50:52.480
it goes. These will carter ice see so we count three,90200:50:52.639 --> 00:50:54.199
flip back the sheet and you jump out of bed90300:50:54.239 --> 00:50:54.760
and no you follow me?90400:50:55.400 --> 00:50:57.400
No, no, listen, Harry. If the great bite you, I90500:50:57.519 --> 00:50:59.079
strike the bundle and press it against the spot and90600:50:59.119 --> 00:50:59.960
it burns out the poisons.90700:51:00.079 --> 00:51:03.159
He well, the matches, get away from me, your bubblehead90800:51:03.159 --> 00:51:06.360
of No, Harry, I'm on tra listen with the taking90900:51:06.480 --> 00:51:08.639
matches and bright ads and get the heck out of here.91000:51:08.760 --> 00:51:10.239
Call the doctor, the doctor.91100:51:10.320 --> 00:51:12.880
I never thought of that. I get to Okay, Harry,91200:51:12.920 --> 00:51:13.440
who do you want?91300:51:13.599 --> 00:51:14.079
Ganderby?91400:51:14.159 --> 00:51:18.119
Or foresythe full size things are bad in love without you.91500:51:18.280 --> 00:51:19.920
Gotta bring my gook in here.91600:51:24.960 --> 00:51:26.800
I dug through the telephone book and I found doctor91700:51:26.840 --> 00:51:28.599
Matson be for size number, and I dial it.91800:51:38.559 --> 00:51:42.519
This is the residence called the doctor side.91900:51:42.599 --> 00:51:43.480
Please, yeah, let.92000:51:43.480 --> 00:51:44.239
Me speak to the doctor.92100:51:44.239 --> 00:51:44.920
It's very urgent.92200:51:45.239 --> 00:51:46.599
Who is calling? Please?92300:51:47.039 --> 00:51:47.800
Arthur Woods?92400:51:48.320 --> 00:51:49.800
Who Woods?92500:51:50.159 --> 00:51:50.840
Arthur Woods?92600:51:51.440 --> 00:52:00.920
Spell please Woods? W oh oh oh, you have already said,92700:52:01.079 --> 00:52:03.159
oh I have already written.92800:52:03.239 --> 00:52:06.280
Oh, have the kindness to give me the next letter.92900:52:06.400 --> 00:52:06.679
Please.93000:52:07.239 --> 00:52:12.119
Oh it's oh after oh please, my name is Woods.93100:52:12.320 --> 00:52:20.440
Spill please w oh oh d w o oh aha93200:52:20.960 --> 00:52:22.639
d s Woods.93300:52:23.119 --> 00:52:26.320
Woods Woods, mister Wood.93400:52:26.559 --> 00:52:28.639
That's right, that's just right now. Let me speak to93500:52:28.679 --> 00:52:29.039
the doctor.93600:52:29.079 --> 00:52:32.639
Please, sorry, doctor notting, call tomorrow.93700:52:35.840 --> 00:52:39.599
Across the room, Harry lay very still sweating, trying to93800:52:39.679 --> 00:52:42.440
keep every muscle relaxed. His face was beginning to twitch93900:52:42.480 --> 00:52:45.599
a little. I was scared if that twitch should spread.94000:52:46.719 --> 00:52:48.039
I called the doctor's house again.94100:52:50.480 --> 00:52:52.480
Please, I do not understand.94200:52:53.079 --> 00:52:55.039
Look, I said, if you don't tell me where the94300:52:55.079 --> 00:52:56.400
doctor is, I'm gonna come over there and pull your94400:52:56.480 --> 00:52:57.599
arms off and then I'm gonna take you by the94500:52:57.599 --> 00:52:59.440
next doctor at the club.94600:52:59.599 --> 00:52:59.840
Please?94700:53:00.039 --> 00:53:00.480
What club?94800:53:01.119 --> 00:53:02.320
The country club?94900:53:02.800 --> 00:53:03.039
Bring?95000:53:03.639 --> 00:53:05.039
Six seven three.95100:53:09.679 --> 00:53:12.880
Harry lay very still fighting the twitches, trying to keep95200:53:12.880 --> 00:53:15.119
from jumping out of his skin, while I waited for95300:53:15.199 --> 00:53:19.400
the bartender at the club to locate doctor forsythe After about.95400:53:19.199 --> 00:53:21.280
Five minutes and nothing, I got this.95500:53:22.360 --> 00:53:24.960
Well, listen, doctor, you gotta get over here right away.95600:53:25.039 --> 00:53:27.079
This is Arthur Woods and my partner. He's got a95700:53:27.119 --> 00:53:28.000
snake in the bed with him.95800:53:29.159 --> 00:53:34.320
Doctor, would you remind your appreci as old boy.95900:53:34.719 --> 00:53:36.800
I said, snake. He's got a snake in the bed96000:53:36.880 --> 00:53:37.159
with him.96100:53:39.719 --> 00:53:42.440
I say, who is his? He says, Captain smile speaking.96200:53:42.800 --> 00:53:44.559
Please, doctor, you gotta get over here right away.96300:53:44.599 --> 00:53:47.599
It's urgent spies you can you don't fool me up.96400:53:49.760 --> 00:53:50.079
Doctor.96500:53:53.119 --> 00:53:55.360
Listen, is this doctor Forsyth speaking?96600:53:56.039 --> 00:53:57.639
Of course he's goin hawk.96700:53:58.159 --> 00:53:59.400
Well, let me speak to the doctor.96800:53:59.480 --> 00:54:01.159
Please's your cardo fellow?96900:54:01.719 --> 00:54:02.039
Why not?97000:54:02.400 --> 00:54:04.639
Why he's jolly red palstang as you.97100:54:04.679 --> 00:54:07.639
Know, passed outcrow.97200:54:10.559 --> 00:54:17.880
Yeah, listen, Harry, you gotta forget all this prejudice stuff.97300:54:18.199 --> 00:54:23.639
Gander buys your only chance. No, no, he's like goog97400:54:23.760 --> 00:54:24.559
he went to Oxford.97500:54:24.559 --> 00:54:24.800
Harry.97600:54:24.960 --> 00:54:27.639
He's like it's him or the Undertaker. He said, I'm97700:54:27.639 --> 00:54:28.679
gonna call him Harry.97800:54:29.119 --> 00:54:33.280
All right, go ahead call it. But he's a gook.97900:54:36.920 --> 00:54:38.840
I called him when I mentioned create.98000:54:38.880 --> 00:54:40.760
He was quiet for a good ten seconds, and then98100:54:40.760 --> 00:54:42.920
he said he'd be right over, and he was within98200:54:43.039 --> 00:54:46.679
five minutes. He was wearing felt slippers, and he moved98300:54:46.719 --> 00:54:50.000
silently into the bedroom. He was carrying his black satchel.98400:54:50.039 --> 00:54:52.920
And when I saw the lamplight glinting softly in his98500:54:52.960 --> 00:54:57.519
steel rimmed spectacles, saw his wise, gentle eyes, his bald98600:54:57.599 --> 00:54:58.159
brown head.98700:54:59.119 --> 00:55:02.840
I thought to myself, right, he looks just like my heart.98800:55:02.920 --> 00:55:07.360
M Again, he looked silently at Harry and smiled encouragingly.98900:55:08.440 --> 00:55:12.440
Harry looked at him, looked at me, looked away.99000:55:13.400 --> 00:55:16.639
Now, first we must very carefully remove the netting from99100:55:16.719 --> 00:55:20.320
about the bed. Mister Pope, I want you to pay99200:55:20.400 --> 00:55:23.760
no attention to us. You are to concentrate on being99300:55:24.000 --> 00:55:28.480
very quiet, on letting the little snake sleep. It is99400:55:28.519 --> 00:55:32.360
a very little snake and it's very tired. You must99500:55:32.440 --> 00:55:35.880
tell yourself this, and you must believe it is necessary99600:55:36.159 --> 00:55:40.599
for it to sleep. Yeah, yeah, mister Woods, help me99700:55:40.679 --> 00:55:48.480
lift the netting getty slowly? Eh, good, good?99800:55:49.280 --> 00:55:50.519
What are you going to do for me?99900:55:50.679 --> 00:55:53.440
Sh think about the little snake?100000:55:53.519 --> 00:55:55.199
What do you think I'm thinking about? What are you100100:55:55.239 --> 00:55:56.000
going to do for me?100200:55:57.360 --> 00:56:02.119
The snake? It is here. It's one of those falls100300:56:02.159 --> 00:56:03.920
over his abdomen.100400:56:04.159 --> 00:56:07.840
Doctor, Now we all know where they'll shh.100500:56:09.119 --> 00:56:12.440
Pretend you are the mother of the little snake. You100600:56:12.559 --> 00:56:14.960
are keeping it warm. It is sleepy.100700:56:16.280 --> 00:56:18.719
That is good, just so as it don't wake up100800:56:18.760 --> 00:56:20.639
and walk breakfast you joke.100900:56:21.159 --> 00:56:21.800
That is good.101000:56:22.559 --> 00:56:25.000
I wish I was back home in the good old USA.101100:56:26.320 --> 00:56:29.559
Then what are you going to do? Doctor? I have101200:56:29.679 --> 00:56:32.559
a serum here he was injected into the blood of101300:56:32.639 --> 00:56:36.280
mister Pope. Then, as he put it, the little snake101400:56:36.360 --> 00:56:41.760
made breakfast to his heart's content, without harm to without101500:56:41.800 --> 00:56:43.079
harm to Mamma.101600:56:44.800 --> 00:56:47.519
His hands were brown and slender and astonishingly deft.101700:56:48.159 --> 00:56:50.679
He poked the hypodermic into a capsule of thick, yellowish101800:56:50.679 --> 00:56:53.519
stuff the serum, and then, with infinite carry, drew the101900:56:53.599 --> 00:56:57.960
plunges slowly and steadily upward. The glistening chamber filled. He102000:56:58.039 --> 00:57:01.440
withdrew the needle, laid the hypodermic down, and then with102100:57:01.519 --> 00:57:04.320
all the gentleness in the world, he began to fold back.102200:57:04.400 --> 00:57:08.119
Harry's sleeve was as though he were folding rare old lace.102300:57:09.159 --> 00:57:13.639
He instant sleeve carefully under and up Harry's arm until102400:57:13.679 --> 00:57:14.800
the vein came into view.102500:57:15.480 --> 00:57:18.159
I'm going to fasten the torn kit on your arm now,102600:57:18.639 --> 00:57:21.519
if we'll be just above the elbow, Do not move102700:57:21.559 --> 00:57:23.920
your arm, do not tweet your muscle.102800:57:25.480 --> 00:57:28.840
Gently, Gently, he tightened the rubber tourniquet, and Harry's arm102900:57:28.880 --> 00:57:31.880
began to flush dark. The vein began to swell blue103000:57:31.960 --> 00:57:34.920
and tight. Harry kept his eyes on the ceiling.103100:57:35.960 --> 00:57:38.280
Now, I'm going to insert the needle in the vein.103200:57:38.840 --> 00:57:41.719
You must not react by that, I mean you must103300:57:41.800 --> 00:57:46.239
not tinge your abdominal muscles. Believe me, mister Pope, this103400:57:46.440 --> 00:57:47.280
will not hurt.103500:57:49.480 --> 00:57:52.840
Very carefully, he placed the syringe almost flat against the arm,103600:57:53.639 --> 00:57:56.239
slid the needle in sideways through the skin and into103700:57:56.320 --> 00:58:00.320
the blue vein. Slid it slowly, but so firmly that103800:58:00.400 --> 00:58:03.440
it went in smooth, smooth as a knife going into103900:58:03.480 --> 00:58:04.760
a cheese dark.104000:58:05.039 --> 00:58:05.519
Ssh.104100:58:06.719 --> 00:58:08.000
You're good, aren't you duck?104200:58:08.400 --> 00:58:09.360
You must believe that.104300:58:10.000 --> 00:58:11.000
Yeah, I gotta let me die.104400:58:11.039 --> 00:58:11.599
Are you duck?104500:58:12.079 --> 00:58:14.599
I am your friend. You must believe that.104600:58:14.880 --> 00:58:15.400
Are you duck?104700:58:15.480 --> 00:58:16.320
You won't let me die?104800:58:16.559 --> 00:58:19.679
No, No, I will not let you die. Now be104900:58:19.800 --> 00:58:24.840
still and think about that all the care in the world.105000:58:24.920 --> 00:58:27.199
As he had pushed the needle into the vein, Now105100:58:27.239 --> 00:58:30.199
he pressed the plunger down, pressed the serum, threw the105200:58:30.280 --> 00:58:34.320
needle and into Harry Pope's body. I watched Harry. His105300:58:34.480 --> 00:58:37.000
eyes were on the wise, gentle face of doctor Ganderby.105400:58:37.880 --> 00:58:40.679
His eyes wanted desperately to believe what Ganderby had told him.105500:58:42.079 --> 00:58:45.760
Now the hypodermic was empty, and slowly it was withdrawn,105600:58:46.760 --> 00:58:49.920
and then slowly the deft, graceful little hands loosened the105700:58:50.000 --> 00:58:54.800
rubber tourniquet, and then Ganderby looked up, met Harry's eyes105800:58:54.880 --> 00:58:59.000
and smiled. Harry tried to smile back, but the smile105900:58:59.119 --> 00:59:00.400
jumped and twitched and died.106000:59:00.840 --> 00:59:03.920
You got taken care of me, on doc, Yes.106100:59:03.840 --> 00:59:07.039
My son. Now you must be still while the serum106200:59:07.159 --> 00:59:10.400
is pumped through your body. Be very still, and be106300:59:10.679 --> 00:59:14.920
very assured. I am your friend. The serum will save you.106400:59:14.920 --> 00:59:16.880
You would escape.106500:59:16.639 --> 00:59:20.679
Harm, he beckoned to me, and I followed him out106600:59:20.719 --> 00:59:22.760
of the room and out onto the dark porch.106700:59:23.199 --> 00:59:24.400
The air was heavy and hot.106800:59:25.320 --> 00:59:28.400
Ganderby stared out at the blackness, drummed his fingers softly106900:59:28.480 --> 00:59:28.920
on the railing.107000:59:30.679 --> 00:59:33.960
Nor your friend is engraved danger.107100:59:34.360 --> 00:59:38.760
Yeah, but the serum you gave him. The serum I107200:59:38.960 --> 00:59:43.800
gave him the serum. But it isn't any good.107300:59:44.960 --> 00:59:49.360
It is the finest known to medical science, and it107400:59:49.480 --> 00:59:50.199
is worthless.107500:59:59.360 --> 01:00:02.639
The most of its science is something strange and mysterious.107601:00:03.320 --> 01:00:07.239
We think of magic medicines and supersonic planes. But here's107701:00:07.280 --> 01:00:10.480
a scientific achievement that's as real as your car and107801:00:10.639 --> 01:00:14.199
as near as your rich Field dealer, it's xilene, one107901:00:14.239 --> 01:00:18.239
of the highest anonok gasoline components ever discovered by scientific research.108001:00:19.039 --> 01:00:22.719
And silene can benefit you today because every gallon of108101:00:22.800 --> 01:00:27.280
Richfield gasoline now contains xilene. Xilene to give your car108201:00:27.400 --> 01:00:31.400
that smooth, knockless power that eats up the miles. Xilene108301:00:31.440 --> 01:00:35.360
for that swift, eager response you need in traffic. Furthermore,108401:00:35.400 --> 01:00:38.320
there's a rich Field gasoline to fit your motor. Your108501:00:38.440 --> 01:00:41.760
rich Field Dealer offers two great rich Field gasolines, both108601:00:41.840 --> 01:00:45.679
with xilene. Get Richfield highatane at regular price for the108701:00:45.719 --> 01:00:49.519
average motor, or Richfield Ethyl ethyl at its best for108801:00:49.679 --> 01:00:54.199
top results in highest compression motors. Get Richfield Gasoline tomorrow.108901:00:54.719 --> 01:00:57.400
Stop where you see the Richfield Eagle on the cream109001:00:57.559 --> 01:00:58.360
and blue pumps.109101:01:00.079 --> 01:01:03.039
Ah, we return you to escape.109201:01:06.599 --> 01:01:09.639
So there it was Harry Pope, the man who had109301:01:09.639 --> 01:01:11.760
been an enemy of anyone and everyone who didn't come109401:01:11.800 --> 01:01:14.559
from his country or speak his language, was now halfway109501:01:14.599 --> 01:01:17.440
through death's door, and his only hope laying a doctor109601:01:17.480 --> 01:01:20.960
ganderby of another race, another creed, another country, and another color.109701:01:21.920 --> 01:01:24.559
Now for the first time in his life, Harry admit109801:01:24.599 --> 01:01:26.800
a gesture of friendship toward a person of another race109901:01:27.400 --> 01:01:30.000
first time, and it seemed to me the last.110001:01:30.920 --> 01:01:34.119
No, my friend, the serum is worth us. What can110101:01:34.159 --> 01:01:34.360
we do?110201:01:34.480 --> 01:01:36.880
Then the snake is bound awake. Sooner or later Harry'll move,110301:01:36.920 --> 01:01:38.440
he won't be able to help himself, and the snake110401:01:38.440 --> 01:01:38.880
will strike.110501:01:39.039 --> 01:01:41.719
We must think. Look, I'll shoot it.110601:01:42.039 --> 01:01:43.519
I can hold a gun low and flat so that110701:01:43.599 --> 01:01:45.599
even if I hit Harriet won't be a penetrating wound.110801:01:45.639 --> 01:01:47.320
I'll blow the snake sheet and all clear the bed.110901:01:47.400 --> 01:01:49.280
Huh, but you don't even know which of the many111001:01:49.360 --> 01:01:52.920
folds increases in that cheach is the harbor of the snake. Yeah,111101:01:53.440 --> 01:01:56.559
you might shoot the air, you would, No, certain he111201:01:56.639 --> 01:01:59.480
wake the snake there, No, we can't do that. I111301:02:00.639 --> 01:02:04.360
think I think I have a solution, mister Woods. Yeah111401:02:05.159 --> 01:02:12.079
we will. We will anesthetize this snake. Yes, we will111501:02:12.199 --> 01:02:20.239
use nitis oxide, but we sir, oh, chloroform, I think111601:02:20.280 --> 01:02:23.639
the last chloroform. Yes, we put the snake out right111701:02:23.679 --> 01:02:25.440
while he's lying on. Harry is at the ONEA. That111801:02:25.599 --> 01:02:27.679
is it, mister Woods. Now, if you will please drive111901:02:27.760 --> 01:02:30.119
quickly down to my house, my boy will show you112001:02:30.199 --> 01:02:33.039
where I keep my supplies. The chloroform is in a112101:02:33.079 --> 01:02:36.000
bottle with an orange Laibe orange label. Yes, bring it112201:02:36.119 --> 01:02:38.239
back as quickly as you can, I will say with112301:02:38.320 --> 01:02:41.440
mister Pope, and try to keep him assured. He seems112401:02:41.480 --> 01:02:45.119
to like you. We all like the doctor when we112501:02:45.239 --> 01:02:51.400
are sick. I drove it as fast as I could.112601:02:51.639 --> 01:02:53.440
The houseboy at the doctors thought I was a madman112701:02:53.480 --> 01:02:55.480
at first, but then he decided in my favor showed112801:02:55.519 --> 01:02:57.480
me where the stuff was. I found the bottle where112901:02:57.480 --> 01:02:59.480
the orange label, smelled it to make sure, and then113001:02:59.519 --> 01:03:00.639
took off to the house.113101:03:01.039 --> 01:03:03.039
I used the car up the driveway and tiptoed into113201:03:03.079 --> 01:03:03.519
the bedroom.113301:03:04.239 --> 01:03:06.239
My friend doctor.113401:03:07.800 --> 01:03:08.280
By Paul.113501:03:08.639 --> 01:03:11.320
Yes, I am your friend, and I am not going113601:03:11.400 --> 01:03:13.000
to let any harm come to you.113701:03:13.800 --> 01:03:17.840
Uhh, here's Willy, he's my friend too, Doc.113801:03:17.920 --> 01:03:20.320
Here's the stuff, doctor Worthy.113901:03:21.760 --> 01:03:24.440
I've been an awful dope on my life, you know that, Willie.114001:03:24.800 --> 01:03:27.199
It's okay, Harry, You're gonna be okay from.114101:03:27.079 --> 01:03:28.400
Now on the dock.114201:03:28.519 --> 01:03:33.719
Here my friend here. I didn't like him when he114301:03:33.840 --> 01:03:38.280
first come into the room. Why because he wasn't an114401:03:38.320 --> 01:03:40.360
American even an Englishman.114501:03:41.920 --> 01:03:45.800
What do you know about that? Huh, he's my friend.114601:03:46.239 --> 01:03:48.320
It's okay, Harry, You're gonna be okay now.114701:03:48.280 --> 01:03:50.639
Boy, I've been a PRIs dope, mister.114801:03:50.760 --> 01:03:52.599
Would you would have to help me right?114901:03:56.639 --> 01:03:59.239
He pulled a prescription pad out of his case toward115001:03:59.320 --> 01:04:01.280
the cardboard back backing off, and twisted it into a115101:04:01.360 --> 01:04:02.199
neat little funnel.115201:04:02.760 --> 01:04:04.119
He laid this on the edge of the bed.115301:04:04.920 --> 01:04:07.199
Then he took the piece of hollow rubber tubing which115401:04:07.199 --> 01:04:09.119
had been used as a tourniquet, and he began to115501:04:09.159 --> 01:04:11.559
slide it into the sheet. It went in where the115601:04:11.599 --> 01:04:14.800
sheet ended across Harry's chest, and he slid it down.115701:04:15.599 --> 01:04:18.639
He slid it slowly, so slowly that although I was115801:04:18.679 --> 01:04:21.880
watching it, I didn't see it move. Ours seemed to115901:04:21.960 --> 01:04:25.960
crawl by. The tube, benched invisibly on and down, down116001:04:26.039 --> 01:04:29.800
and down, past the unseen buttons of his jacket, passed116101:04:29.840 --> 01:04:31.280
the unseen cord to his trousers.116201:04:31.719 --> 01:04:32.400
Then it stopped.116301:04:33.079 --> 01:04:35.000
Ganderby had sent it by a route which did not116401:04:35.119 --> 01:04:37.280
cross any of the creases in the sheet. It was116501:04:37.360 --> 01:04:39.280
being very careful not to prod the snake with it.116601:04:39.599 --> 01:04:42.039
He was sweating too, now, sweating and biting his lip116701:04:42.079 --> 01:04:44.760
with his teeth. Funny. I remember now one was gold.116801:04:45.039 --> 01:04:47.039
I remember staring at it while he instant tube.116901:04:48.039 --> 01:04:51.719
Now the funnel I fitted into the end of the tube,117001:04:51.760 --> 01:04:55.440
and already, mister Poope, this is going to be very cold.117101:04:56.079 --> 01:04:59.039
The evaporation of the chloroform will cause a sharp lowering117201:04:59.119 --> 01:05:02.079
of the temperature. You must be prepared for this. It117301:05:02.159 --> 01:05:04.719
will take rather a long time. Another factor for which117401:05:04.760 --> 01:05:08.159
you must prepare yourself. The snake is a reptile, and117501:05:08.239 --> 01:05:11.400
reptiles do not react quickly to the anesthetics which are117601:05:11.480 --> 01:05:14.559
intended for the use of warm blooded animals. And bear117701:05:14.639 --> 01:05:17.199
these things in mind. Are you ready?117801:05:18.880 --> 01:05:19.119
Sure?117901:05:21.119 --> 01:05:21.159
En?118001:05:22.199 --> 01:05:24.320
He opened the bottle and began to drip the stuff118101:05:24.320 --> 01:05:27.400
into the funnel, slowly, very slowly. Drop by drop, the118201:05:27.440 --> 01:05:29.679
clear liquid entered the tube and traveled a long dark118301:05:29.760 --> 01:05:32.400
route to Harry Pope's stomach, where the crate lay sleeping.118401:05:33.039 --> 01:05:36.679
Drop by drop, A pale, swirling vapor hung over the funnel.118501:05:37.079 --> 01:05:38.960
Down there on the sheet where the tube bended, a118601:05:39.119 --> 01:05:42.960
wet gray patch began to spread the chloroform, spreading and evaporating,118701:05:43.239 --> 01:05:44.360
spreading and evaporating.118801:05:44.760 --> 01:05:47.760
The room began to rig of it, and I remembered.118901:05:47.400 --> 01:05:51.119
Other places and other times, hospitals, operations, the death of119001:05:51.239 --> 01:05:53.039
loved ones, smell of chloroform.119101:05:53.719 --> 01:05:55.920
Harry began to twitch now his nose. He seemed to119201:05:55.960 --> 01:05:56.519
be in agony.119301:05:57.199 --> 01:05:58.519
What Harry, what is it?119401:06:00.079 --> 01:06:01.039
Think up?119501:06:02.280 --> 01:06:02.800
Sneeze?119601:06:03.920 --> 01:06:09.079
Don't do it boy, hang on, Harry, don't. Ganderby looked119701:06:09.079 --> 01:06:09.800
at Harry's face.119801:06:09.960 --> 01:06:12.119
He reached up, pressed his knuckle against some nerve on119901:06:12.159 --> 01:06:14.320
Harry's upper lip, and the agon eyes looked vanished.120001:06:15.559 --> 01:06:19.519
The relentless dripping of the chloroform continued. Harry was getting cold.120101:06:19.519 --> 01:06:21.519
I could see goose flesh along his arms, across the120201:06:21.599 --> 01:06:23.559
top of his chest where the jacket was opened.120301:06:24.039 --> 01:06:25.800
Danderby looked at this and stopped pouring.120401:06:26.840 --> 01:06:29.679
This is nothing. I think our little friends should be120501:06:29.800 --> 01:06:34.199
thoroughly unconscious. Now, mister Pope, you must remain very still.120601:06:34.880 --> 01:06:36.519
We are going to remove the sheet.120701:06:36.719 --> 01:06:40.519
Now then it's seeing you, said doctor.120801:06:40.719 --> 01:06:43.519
Mister Woods, you take the other side. We will have120901:06:43.679 --> 01:06:48.360
to do this ever so carefully. We each took a121001:06:48.440 --> 01:06:51.079
side of the hymn. I watched Ganderby and did everything121101:06:51.119 --> 01:06:54.400
that he did. Harry's arms were still flat on the bed,121201:06:54.840 --> 01:06:58.239
pointing toward his feet. We hinched the sheet under and121301:06:58.440 --> 01:07:01.599
free of these was rough because we had to do121401:07:01.679 --> 01:07:04.719
it without disturbing the main area of the sheet. When121501:07:04.760 --> 01:07:07.559
it was free of his arms, we began to raise it, slowly,121601:07:08.239 --> 01:07:10.800
gathering the material in our hands as we progressed ever121701:07:10.880 --> 01:07:14.440
so slowly down Harry's chest. We reached the end of121801:07:14.480 --> 01:07:19.199
his jacket. No sign of the snake. My hands were121901:07:19.239 --> 01:07:22.760
beginning to shake. Ganderby paused while I turned my head122001:07:22.800 --> 01:07:25.760
away for air. The odor of chloroform was stifling. And122101:07:25.840 --> 01:07:30.199
then we went on, slowly, thread by thread, raising the122201:07:30.280 --> 01:07:32.920
sheet and easing it away down past the cord of122301:07:32.960 --> 01:07:36.599
his pajamas, and down and down, and still no sign122401:07:36.639 --> 01:07:39.559
of the snake. I'd stopped looking for it by now122501:07:39.840 --> 01:07:42.559
I was concentrating on keeping my arms from shaking. And122601:07:42.679 --> 01:07:47.159
then quite suddenly we were done. Ganderby dropped the sheet122701:07:47.159 --> 01:07:50.320
on the floor. Harry lay on his back, not moving,122801:07:50.719 --> 01:07:54.719
but watching us with wide terrorized eyes. Ganderby splindied it122901:07:54.800 --> 01:07:56.719
both sides of Harry at his legs.123001:07:58.079 --> 01:07:58.559
Where is it?123101:08:00.119 --> 01:08:02.320
It is not as you suppose on the outside of123201:08:02.400 --> 01:08:13.719
your pajama pens. It must be up one of the lakes, Harry.123301:08:13.840 --> 01:08:28.800
No, No, I don't see it. Kick those tatters of123401:08:28.880 --> 01:08:33.239
thought or remains of his pain. No, nothing the under123501:08:33.279 --> 01:08:33.560
the pin.123601:08:33.680 --> 01:08:37.800
Y're not me, Harry, Harry, not your feet. No, there's nothing,123701:08:38.600 --> 01:08:41.520
mister pope. Are you Are you quite certain you saw123801:08:41.600 --> 01:08:45.439
a snake? Sometimes when we are very tired, we find123901:08:45.520 --> 01:08:48.439
our auto suggestive faculties run a bit out of hair.124001:08:48.600 --> 01:08:50.079
Are you calling me alive?124101:08:50.199 --> 01:08:50.399
Why?124201:08:50.439 --> 01:08:50.479
No?124301:08:50.560 --> 01:08:52.680
No, I merely say that the auto suggestion.124401:08:54.000 --> 01:08:55.359
Are you telling me I'm a liar?124501:08:55.399 --> 01:08:55.680
Harry?124601:08:56.279 --> 01:08:59.640
Why are you losy little quack call me a liar?124701:09:00.399 --> 01:09:03.760
Your steak, a little hindo witch doctor with your fancy pants.124801:09:03.880 --> 01:09:06.560
Tell Harry come in here sticking me for your cheap124901:09:06.640 --> 01:09:07.479
no good medice?125001:09:07.760 --> 01:09:09.760
Go boy, that freezing cold up.125101:09:10.199 --> 01:09:10.960
Let me take it easy.125201:09:11.000 --> 01:09:16.000
Harry's your friend, my friend, that little hunk of farm125301:09:16.239 --> 01:09:17.600
trash my friend.125401:09:19.199 --> 01:09:20.920
Where I come from, where youse guys live?125501:09:21.000 --> 01:09:23.479
Cake You like him for bus boys, You make a mistake.125601:09:23.600 --> 01:09:24.159
You are wrong.125701:09:24.880 --> 01:09:26.840
Bus boys for waiters for nothing.125801:09:27.479 --> 01:09:28.359
You're a fauner.125901:09:29.039 --> 01:09:30.840
You're a goat, You're a nothing.126001:09:32.239 --> 01:09:33.600
To beat you to a bloody pop.126101:09:33.680 --> 01:09:37.039
You and your chloroform, you, you and your stump of126201:09:37.159 --> 01:09:40.960
a friendship and Mama snake, and I must make out126301:09:41.119 --> 01:09:41.359
like I.126401:09:41.680 --> 01:09:46.079
Like you I'll just spwitch your hand wide open, your.126501:09:46.159 --> 01:09:49.279
Go, your go car, go you go.126601:09:55.000 --> 01:09:59.640
Please, doctor forgive him. He's been und a great strain.126701:10:00.920 --> 01:10:06.960
He doesn't mean it a great strain. Yes, he needs126801:10:07.000 --> 01:10:12.560
a good holiday. Good night, mister Woods.126901:10:18.520 --> 01:10:18.960
That's all.127001:10:20.319 --> 01:10:22.720
I couldn't tell this if old Harry was still alive,127101:10:24.079 --> 01:10:28.640
Poor old Harry. He didn't die in India. He died127201:10:28.680 --> 01:10:32.920
in Chicago in the loop, got run over by a127301:10:33.039 --> 01:10:37.119
taxi cab. The driver was third generation Irish, a real127401:10:37.279 --> 01:10:41.399
hundred percent white American. Maybe that means something. I don't know,127501:10:42.920 --> 01:10:43.840
poor old Harry.127601:10:53.960 --> 01:10:56.079
Believe it or not, but the very life of your127701:10:56.159 --> 01:10:59.600
car depends on oil. Without oil, your motor would grind127801:10:59.680 --> 01:11:02.520
itself to pieces in a matter of minutes. That's why127901:11:02.600 --> 01:11:05.520
you need an oil that stands up under every driving condition.128001:11:06.359 --> 01:11:10.199
That's why you need Richlube all weather motor oil. Richlub128101:11:10.279 --> 01:11:13.439
is refined one hundred percent from the finest Pennsylvania crude128201:11:13.479 --> 01:11:17.520
oil ever discovered. That's your guarantee that Richlub won't burn128301:11:17.680 --> 01:11:20.199
up even under the terrific heat of hard summer driving.128401:11:20.960 --> 01:11:24.239
Its tough, long lasting oil film is your faithful watchdog.128501:11:24.840 --> 01:11:28.039
It protects your motor every mile you drive. You can128601:11:28.119 --> 01:11:32.239
depend on it. Moreover, Richlub motor oil combat carbon and128701:11:32.399 --> 01:11:36.560
other harmful deposits by its special cleansing action. It cleans128801:11:36.760 --> 01:11:40.039
as it lubricates your motor. Keep your motor young, keep128901:11:40.119 --> 01:11:43.720
your motor clean. See your rich Field gasoline dealer tomorrow129001:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.119
ask him to change your oil to Richlube All Weather129101:11:47.199 --> 01:11:52.520
Motor Oil. Escape is produced and directed by William and129201:11:52.640 --> 01:11:55.800
Robson and Tonight has presented Poison by Roll dal and129301:11:55.840 --> 01:11:59.039
adapted for radio by James Poe Richard and Tonight's cast129401:11:59.079 --> 01:12:02.479
where Jack Webb's Bill Conrad as Harry, Jane Novella is Gandabay,129501:12:02.880 --> 01:12:05.880
and Charlie Long is the houseboy. Special music arranged and129601:12:05.920 --> 01:12:09.319
played by ivand Admirers. Next week, at this time, the129701:12:09.439 --> 01:12:11.800
Richfield Oil Corporation of New York can invite you to129801:12:11.960 --> 01:12:14.560
escape with an exciting story of evil and violence in129901:12:14.640 --> 01:12:17.399
the deadly swamps of New Guinea. As Jewels Archer tells130001:12:17.399 --> 01:12:20.199
it in Too Came Back. Goodbye then until the same130101:12:20.279 --> 01:12:23.680
time next week, when once again we offer you escape.130201:12:24.439 --> 01:12:28.359
Tom Hanland, speaking over CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System.130301:12:42.520 --> 01:12:45.399
Don't allow the cold to get to you. My dear,130401:12:46.239 --> 01:12:51.279
winter is still very early on, and I think you'll130501:12:51.359 --> 01:12:52.960
be just fine.130601:12:54.000 --> 01:12:54.359
What's that?130701:12:55.279 --> 01:13:00.680
Well, I suppose winter never dies, does last.130801:13:02.399 --> 01:13:03.399
But what does.130901:13:04.800 --> 01:13:05.119
I mean?131001:13:06.159 --> 01:13:11.079
In the broad scheme of things, nothing can last forever,131101:13:13.319 --> 01:13:20.399
except perhaps for nothing itself. A total absence could, in theory,131201:13:21.000 --> 01:13:25.760
exist forever. But now I'm getting far too in the weeds.131301:13:27.119 --> 01:13:32.800
If it's cold, put on a blanket, or if you're serious,131401:13:34.039 --> 01:13:36.000
Escapes by Death.131501:13:40.800 --> 01:13:42.600
That sal book.131601:13:52.479 --> 01:13:55.960
Once again, the keeper of the book is ready to open,131701:13:56.000 --> 01:13:59.199
the ponderous volume in which has recorded all the secrets131801:13:59.239 --> 01:14:04.840
and mysteries of mankind through the ages, all the strange131901:14:04.880 --> 01:14:09.720
and mystifying stories of the past, the present, and the future.132001:15:46.800 --> 01:15:49.920
Keeper of the book, what tale will you tell us132101:15:50.079 --> 01:15:50.560
this time?132201:15:50.920 --> 01:15:52.399
What tales shall I tell you?132301:15:53.159 --> 01:15:57.319
I have tales here of every kind, tales of murder,132401:15:58.000 --> 01:16:03.520
tales of madness, of deeds and events strange beyond all belief.132501:16:04.680 --> 01:16:07.239
Eh let me see.132601:16:10.359 --> 01:16:15.039
Yes, here's a tale for her, A strange and terrible132701:16:15.239 --> 01:16:18.760
story of two old ladies and how they tried to132801:16:19.000 --> 01:16:25.640
escape from their doom. I call the story escape by Death.132901:16:30.199 --> 01:16:33.880
My story begins in a big, shabby old house in133001:16:34.000 --> 01:16:38.439
the country, fully a mile from any other habitation in133101:16:38.560 --> 01:16:42.439
a large ground floor room which is both their bedroom133201:16:42.520 --> 01:16:46.720
and sitting room. Martha and Louise Abbot listen to the133301:16:46.800 --> 01:16:54.439
wind howl outside. Louise is an invalid confined to a wheelchair. Martha,133401:16:54.920 --> 01:16:58.439
though able to walk, can only hobble a few steps133501:16:58.479 --> 01:17:02.640
at a time, so that to them, the lonely house133601:17:02.960 --> 01:17:05.319
is almost like a prisoner.133701:17:06.000 --> 01:17:09.640
Oh, listen to that, win, Louise. Oh, I do hate133801:17:09.720 --> 01:17:12.239
living out in the country like this. We're so isolated133901:17:12.279 --> 01:17:14.199
from everybody who is math.134001:17:14.600 --> 01:17:17.439
It was so much nicer when we lived in our134101:17:17.520 --> 01:17:19.119
own house in the village.134201:17:19.399 --> 01:17:22.199
Even if Roger and Hester are our nephew and niece,134301:17:22.279 --> 01:17:24.359
we should never have looked them persuade us to move134401:17:24.439 --> 01:17:29.840
out here with them. What is it, Toby Queenie our134501:17:30.039 --> 01:17:35.000
mother's darlings hungry? Even Toby and Queeny don't like living here?134601:17:35.760 --> 01:17:41.399
Is they do seem unhappy? Queenie hasn't been eating, will.134701:17:41.640 --> 01:17:44.079
Louise, It's very foolish for us to stay here with134801:17:44.239 --> 01:17:47.439
Roger and Hester. I think I hear Hester coming now.134901:17:47.960 --> 01:17:49.960
We'll tell her right away that we want to go135001:17:50.199 --> 01:17:52.000
back to our old home here.135101:17:52.079 --> 01:17:54.239
I have at last had Louise Martha.135201:17:54.600 --> 01:17:56.479
I've rod your teeth and some cake.135301:17:56.560 --> 01:17:58.960
I just made this afternoon. Thank you.135401:17:59.159 --> 01:18:02.520
Dear Daily sent little for you. George Gibson just delivered it.135501:18:02.960 --> 01:18:04.239
I haven't even opened it yet.135601:18:04.319 --> 01:18:04.600
Thank you.135701:18:05.600 --> 01:18:09.359
Roger, Louis and I have been talking things over. That135801:18:09.600 --> 01:18:11.520
was very kind of you to invite us to live135901:18:11.600 --> 01:18:14.399
here with you, but we were much happier living in136001:18:14.520 --> 01:18:15.000
the village.136101:18:15.359 --> 01:18:18.199
We want to go back, but an Martha, it's much136201:18:18.279 --> 01:18:20.119
better for you here, really it is.136301:18:20.359 --> 01:18:23.159
Of course, you're just homesick, both of you.136401:18:23.399 --> 01:18:26.199
You'll get over it pretty soon. You love the country136501:18:26.239 --> 01:18:27.000
as much as we do.136601:18:27.159 --> 01:18:27.279
Now.136701:18:27.359 --> 01:18:29.800
We don't want to hear another word about your leaving us,136801:18:30.279 --> 01:18:32.560
but we couldn't be happy thinking of you alone and136901:18:32.760 --> 01:18:33.760
help us in the village.137001:18:34.199 --> 01:18:36.319
Come along, Roger, let them drink their tea, all right,137101:18:37.000 --> 01:18:37.479
both later.137201:18:39.119 --> 01:18:41.520
I do wish they'd let us go back.137301:18:41.760 --> 01:18:44.079
There's no reason why we shouldn't, do.137401:18:44.159 --> 01:18:47.880
You Remember the teas we used to give Marry Thompson137501:18:48.039 --> 01:18:49.760
came over every afternoon.137601:18:50.079 --> 01:18:51.399
It was so nice.137701:18:51.600 --> 01:18:54.279
There's no reason we can't move back and get those137801:18:54.359 --> 01:18:54.920
teas again.137901:18:55.640 --> 01:18:58.560
We won't be alone a helpless either, and all the138001:18:58.640 --> 01:19:01.119
money father leftists weak and of a dozen servants.138101:19:02.079 --> 01:19:05.319
Louise, we are going back. I've made up my mind.138201:19:05.439 --> 01:19:07.640
Oh, my son, I'm so glad.138301:19:08.600 --> 01:19:12.520
Listen to Tony and Queene. They're glad we're going back138401:19:12.600 --> 01:19:15.039
to aren't you you? Bet old darling?138501:19:15.439 --> 01:19:21.039
Hoy understand your mother. They know we're not going to138601:19:21.159 --> 01:19:23.880
stay here much longer, of course they do.138701:19:24.920 --> 01:19:28.560
Well, now that's settled. Let's see what's in the sentinel.138801:19:29.439 --> 01:19:31.680
M AT's see now.138901:19:32.079 --> 01:19:36.279
Oh, Matha, let's look at the obituary notices.139001:19:36.439 --> 01:19:41.399
Fast, Just what I was turning to Louise, and here139101:19:41.479 --> 01:19:41.800
we are.139201:19:42.199 --> 01:19:44.359
Did anyone we know die?139301:19:44.960 --> 01:19:45.119
Now?139401:19:45.319 --> 01:19:47.399
Let me see? Ah?139501:19:47.560 --> 01:19:51.960
Yes, y you remember Amos Wilson, don't you? He died139601:19:52.039 --> 01:19:52.840
two days ago?139701:19:54.000 --> 01:19:54.880
Poor Amos.139801:19:55.640 --> 01:19:57.760
He was about your age, wasn't he?139901:19:57.920 --> 01:19:58.279
Martha?140001:19:58.560 --> 01:20:01.960
Certainly not. He was a good deal of Oh, math140101:20:02.239 --> 01:20:02.720
look at this.140201:20:03.920 --> 01:20:07.439
Why it says that Mary Thompson is entering the County140301:20:07.560 --> 01:20:09.359
Home for the Infirm.140401:20:09.520 --> 01:20:12.600
The poor house. Oh don't know, he can't be. You140501:20:12.720 --> 01:20:18.119
can read it for yourself. Oh, that dreadful place. I'd140601:20:18.239 --> 01:20:20.279
rather be dead than in that home.140701:20:20.199 --> 01:20:21.079
Of poor Mary.140801:20:21.319 --> 01:20:21.640
Martha.140901:20:22.239 --> 01:20:24.239
After we moved back to the village, can't we have141001:20:24.399 --> 01:20:25.600
Mary come to live.141101:20:25.520 --> 01:20:28.359
With us, Yes, of course, why going to the poor141201:20:28.439 --> 01:20:31.680
house would be the death of her? No, no, it141301:20:31.840 --> 01:20:34.880
can't be what can't be read what.141401:20:35.000 --> 01:20:36.840
It says there in the real estate column.141501:20:37.640 --> 01:20:41.640
The old Abbit Mansion, owned by the missus Martha and141601:20:41.840 --> 01:20:46.439
Louise Abbot, has been put up for sale by their nephew.141701:20:46.199 --> 01:20:46.920
Roger Clark.141801:20:47.199 --> 01:20:50.600
What why it must be a mist We never told141901:20:50.680 --> 01:20:54.680
Roger to sell our house, Roger, Roger?142001:20:54.800 --> 01:20:56.680
Now, mother, we mustn't get excited.142101:20:56.840 --> 01:20:58.960
But why should he want to sell our house and142201:20:59.279 --> 01:21:03.920
permit it? Yes, Roger, what's this in the sentinel about142301:21:03.960 --> 01:21:05.359
our house being up for sale?142401:21:05.960 --> 01:21:06.119
Oh?142501:21:06.880 --> 01:21:07.800
Is it in the sentinel?142601:21:08.720 --> 01:21:08.840
Oh?142701:21:08.880 --> 01:21:09.600
I'm so sorry.142801:21:09.760 --> 01:21:11.720
It is a mistake, isn't it, Roger?142901:21:11.920 --> 01:21:15.960
Well, no, Aunt Louise, since the house isn't being used,143001:21:16.159 --> 01:21:17.920
I thought it'd be a good idea to sell it.143101:21:18.000 --> 01:21:19.800
But you had no right to put the house up143201:21:19.880 --> 01:21:20.880
for sale without telling me.143301:21:21.119 --> 01:21:23.840
Now, don't get yourself excited, Anne Martha, you don't want143401:21:23.880 --> 01:21:24.520
the household.143501:21:24.640 --> 01:21:25.840
I'll remove it from the market.143601:21:25.960 --> 01:21:29.199
You must, Roger, we couldn't live if the house was sold.143701:21:29.439 --> 01:21:31.640
All right, All right, now, I'll take care of everything.143801:21:31.720 --> 01:21:33.680
Don't you worry. Everything's going to be all right.143901:21:34.319 --> 01:21:36.840
I don't like it, Louise. I don't like it at all.144001:21:37.520 --> 01:21:39.600
Why should he try to sell it without telling us?144101:21:39.760 --> 01:21:40.159
He does?144201:21:40.319 --> 01:21:42.359
Seem strange, Louise.144301:21:42.720 --> 01:21:45.159
We must get in touch with Judge Morris at once.144401:21:45.720 --> 01:21:48.640
He's the administrator of father's estate. He'll take care of144501:21:48.720 --> 01:21:52.000
everything for us the way we want it. I didn't144601:21:52.199 --> 01:21:55.640
like the look in Roger's eyes just now. I've always144701:21:55.720 --> 01:21:58.520
been suspicious of Roger, and if you want my opinion,144801:21:58.720 --> 01:22:00.840
he and Hester are up to something.144901:22:11.560 --> 01:22:13.920
Is Mother's beautiful queene hungry?145001:22:14.760 --> 01:22:17.800
Well, here's a nice piece of meat from the lovely145101:22:17.920 --> 01:22:19.319
supper Hester just brought us.145201:22:20.159 --> 01:22:22.000
Oh, Queenie is hungry.145301:22:22.119 --> 01:22:22.399
Mother.145401:22:23.119 --> 01:22:26.359
She's got her appetite back since she learned we intend145501:22:26.439 --> 01:22:27.640
going back to the village.145601:22:27.760 --> 01:22:30.600
Yes, she has. But where's Tokey? I don't see him145701:22:30.640 --> 01:22:31.479
around any place?145801:22:31.600 --> 01:22:35.600
Probably in the kitchen. Martha, when are you going to145901:22:35.680 --> 01:22:38.560
speak to Roger and Hester again about our leaving?146001:22:38.720 --> 01:22:40.680
And I'm waiting until we can get in touch with146101:22:40.800 --> 01:22:44.119
Judge Morris. He'll come get us, whether Roger wants us146201:22:44.159 --> 01:22:48.520
to go or not. There's been something very strange about146301:22:48.600 --> 01:22:50.920
Roger's manner ever since we told him yesterday.146401:22:50.960 --> 01:22:53.159
We didn't think to stay, Martha.146501:22:53.560 --> 01:22:56.760
Look, queen is here, that meets You gave her his146601:22:56.920 --> 01:22:58.239
name as sick Queenie.146701:22:58.560 --> 01:23:00.520
Oh, what's the matter with mother, darling?146801:23:00.880 --> 01:23:01.159
Mother?146901:23:01.800 --> 01:23:03.640
There's something terribly wrong with her?147001:23:03.840 --> 01:23:04.239
Queenie?147101:23:04.560 --> 01:23:05.039
What is it?147201:23:05.600 --> 01:23:06.920
Oh, Louise, what can we do?147301:23:07.159 --> 01:23:08.039
Can you give us the water?147401:23:08.119 --> 01:23:13.640
Maybe that her help? Matha? She's fallen down.147501:23:14.319 --> 01:23:21.920
She's dead, Louise. Queenie is dead, but she is. She147601:23:22.079 --> 01:23:25.119
was perfectly all right until I gave her that meat.147701:23:25.399 --> 01:23:30.159
She was so she just bolted to do math She147801:23:30.319 --> 01:23:31.399
must have chooked it.147901:23:31.560 --> 01:23:35.119
She just choked, did she? I'm not so sure.148001:23:35.840 --> 01:23:37.680
What do you mean?148101:23:37.880 --> 01:23:40.479
What else could it have been? She acted more as148201:23:40.560 --> 01:23:43.760
if she were poisoned, poisoned. This, I'm sure of it.148301:23:44.159 --> 01:23:47.960
The meat was poisoned. That's why Queeney died. God, how148401:23:48.119 --> 01:23:49.119
is that possible?148501:23:49.399 --> 01:23:52.640
It was poisoned because that meat was meant for.148601:23:52.800 --> 01:23:53.640
Us, Matha.148701:23:54.319 --> 01:23:58.479
You you don't mean that Roger in hestereus? Louise, Oh,148801:23:58.640 --> 01:24:02.000
I see it now. That's why they brought us out here.148901:24:02.359 --> 01:24:05.720
Why they won't let us leave. They're planning to kill us.149001:24:05.920 --> 01:24:07.000
They're after our money.149101:24:07.399 --> 01:24:08.960
Martha, what are we going to do?149201:24:09.279 --> 01:24:11.560
We've got to get in touch with Judge Morris right away.149301:24:12.000 --> 01:24:15.279
You'll say that, good Martha, how can we the telephone?149401:24:15.319 --> 01:24:19.680
It's upstairs in Hester's room, and neither of us conclined stairs.149501:24:19.800 --> 01:24:23.840
I know that we've got to figure another waiter reach him, Louise,149601:24:24.000 --> 01:24:25.479
our lives depend upon it.149701:24:34.279 --> 01:24:35.640
All that night the.149801:24:35.680 --> 01:24:39.520
Two old ladies tear in their hearts, tossed and turned149901:24:39.560 --> 01:24:41.399
in an effort to think of a way of escape150001:24:41.439 --> 01:24:45.000
from the horrible trap in which they found themselves. In150101:24:45.119 --> 01:24:47.880
the morning, they thought they had discovered how to do it.150201:24:48.560 --> 01:24:52.880
When George Gibson, the rural mail carrier, came by, Louise150301:24:53.039 --> 01:24:55.720
called to him and gave him a frantic message to150401:24:55.840 --> 01:24:59.960
Judge Morris, which he promised to deliver. However, a few150501:25:00.119 --> 01:25:05.079
minutes later, encountering Roger, their nephew, George Gibson told him150601:25:05.119 --> 01:25:08.159
what had happened, and Roger managed to persuade him not150701:25:08.399 --> 01:25:12.479
to deliver the message. Then Roger hurried home to consult150801:25:12.600 --> 01:25:13.079
with Hester.150901:25:14.239 --> 01:25:16.159
Roger, you say that while Marth was out here in151001:25:16.199 --> 01:25:19.760
the kitchen with me, Louise was giving George Gibson a method.151101:25:19.560 --> 01:25:20.279
For Judge Morris.151201:25:20.439 --> 01:25:23.279
Yes, and she seems so excited that George stopped me151301:25:23.279 --> 01:25:24.439
on the road to tell me about it.151401:25:25.159 --> 01:25:25.439
Hester.151501:25:25.840 --> 01:25:26.920
I'm afraid they suspect.151601:25:27.039 --> 01:25:28.079
Oh no, no, they mustn't.151701:25:28.439 --> 01:25:30.439
We mustn't let them, I should say not. After all151801:25:30.479 --> 01:25:33.840
the trouble we've gone to, we would ruin everything. We've151901:25:33.880 --> 01:25:36.520
got to quiet their suspicion. Somehow, we've got to make152001:25:36.600 --> 01:25:38.880
them like it here so they'd be perfectly content to152101:25:38.920 --> 01:25:40.680
stay with us until they die.152201:27:58.640 --> 01:28:02.159
And now to return to the story of escape by152301:28:02.359 --> 01:28:05.920
death as it is written in the Sealed Book. For152401:28:06.159 --> 01:28:10.439
twenty four hours, Martha and Louise have waited in trembling152501:28:10.560 --> 01:28:14.840
impatience for George Gibson to bring words that Judge Morris152601:28:14.920 --> 01:28:17.399
has received their friendic appeal for help.152701:28:18.920 --> 01:28:21.520
Oh Martha, where can George be?152801:28:21.840 --> 01:28:23.680
He's more than an only.152901:28:23.680 --> 01:28:26.800
He's probably just been delayed. Maybe the car broke down.153001:28:26.880 --> 01:28:27.680
He'll be here soon.153101:28:28.039 --> 01:28:32.439
Yes, here he comes. Now he's turning up the trial. Oh, Martha,153201:28:32.520 --> 01:28:33.800
I was so worried.153301:28:34.039 --> 01:28:35.560
I told you he wouldn't fail us.153401:28:36.640 --> 01:28:38.760
There's Roger taking the mail from him.153501:28:39.319 --> 01:28:41.760
Suppose Roger doesn't let him see us, he.153601:28:41.840 --> 01:28:43.920
Might always What is it, Martha?153701:28:44.159 --> 01:28:44.720
What's wrong?153801:28:44.880 --> 01:28:48.520
That isn't George Gibson delivering the mail. Not George Gibson. No,153901:28:48.760 --> 01:28:52.279
that's a much younger man. Now he's leaving. Roger's coming154001:28:52.359 --> 01:28:53.000
back in the house.154101:28:53.279 --> 01:28:53.640
Martha.154201:28:53.960 --> 01:28:55.520
Where do you suppose Georgie.154301:28:55.760 --> 01:28:56.159
I don't know.154401:28:56.600 --> 01:29:00.399
I don't understand. Perhaps he's sick to disher.154501:29:00.520 --> 01:29:03.960
Hello on Martha and Louise. Here's a magazine that came154601:29:04.000 --> 01:29:05.680
in the mail. I thought you might like to see it.154701:29:06.079 --> 01:29:07.039
Thank you, Roger.154801:29:07.720 --> 01:29:10.399
Why didn't George Gibson deliver the mail today?154901:29:10.800 --> 01:29:10.960
Oh?155001:29:11.439 --> 01:29:13.000
You saw that there was a new driver.155101:29:14.199 --> 01:29:16.680
Well, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but155201:29:16.880 --> 01:29:20.039
yesterday afternoon, poor George was killed.155301:29:20.319 --> 01:29:20.600
Killed.155401:29:20.800 --> 01:29:24.640
No, he had a bad accident as he was returning155501:29:24.680 --> 01:29:25.159
to the village.155601:29:25.680 --> 01:29:26.479
An accident.155701:29:26.680 --> 01:29:29.119
Yes, I'd rather not talk about it anymore. Now it'll155801:29:29.159 --> 01:29:31.840
just upset you. Hesse'll bring you some sopper soon.155901:29:32.920 --> 01:29:36.439
Poor George let me to Judge Morris. Didn't get our message?156001:29:36.520 --> 01:29:41.000
Oh ma't you see, Louise, that wasn't any accident. George156101:29:41.119 --> 01:29:44.199
was killed to keep him from going to Judge Morris. Marfa,156201:29:44.359 --> 01:29:46.680
you you can't mean with Roger and Hess.156301:29:46.760 --> 01:29:49.600
Yes, Louise, they'll stop at nothing to get our money.156401:29:49.760 --> 01:29:51.319
But what are we going to do?156501:29:52.079 --> 01:29:55.560
We can't get a message to anyone, and they're poisoning156601:29:55.600 --> 01:29:58.920
our food. We haven't eaten a thing since poor queen156701:29:58.960 --> 01:30:02.199
He died. I can't go on throwing the food away,156801:30:02.319 --> 01:30:03.079
or we'll starve.156901:30:03.399 --> 01:30:07.279
There's only one thing to do. Toby must sample our food.157001:30:07.840 --> 01:30:10.319
You mean to see if it's poisonous.157101:30:11.039 --> 01:30:14.039
It's dreadful having to risk put Toby's life, but it's157201:30:14.079 --> 01:30:27.079
the only thing we can do. You are Toby a157301:30:27.239 --> 01:30:30.359
nice piece of meat for mother's darling, Martha.157401:30:30.479 --> 01:30:34.119
I get so frightened every time I see Toby eating something.157501:30:34.880 --> 01:30:38.239
I keep remembering Queenie, the dreadful wishing to.157601:30:38.359 --> 01:30:41.800
Now Now, Louise, we mustn't think of that here, Toby, dear,157701:30:43.359 --> 01:30:44.520
why are you feeding Toby?157801:30:44.760 --> 01:30:46.960
He gets plenty to eat in the kitchen. He'll die157901:30:47.039 --> 01:30:49.000
of overeating if you are Carol.158001:30:49.039 --> 01:30:51.279
I've always sped Toby for my own plate.158101:30:51.560 --> 01:30:54.119
He expects it, an, Martha. If you feed that meat158201:30:54.119 --> 01:30:55.560
to the cat, there won't be enough for you.158301:30:56.479 --> 01:30:59.279
And if you're to get well, you need all that food.158401:31:00.039 --> 01:31:02.039
I don't want you feeding Toby anymore of it here.158501:31:02.119 --> 01:31:04.279
Toby, come on, boy, come on, come on, come on,158601:31:04.479 --> 01:31:06.960
come on out the kitchen and Martin Luisy to supper.158701:31:16.760 --> 01:31:16.920
Here.158801:31:17.000 --> 01:31:18.439
You aren't, Mother, Louise.158901:31:18.479 --> 01:31:20.600
I've got your lunch. Doesn't it look good?159001:31:21.039 --> 01:31:22.840
Yes, sister, it's very.159101:31:22.840 --> 01:31:27.840
Nice here Toby. Esther, have you seen Toby?159201:31:28.319 --> 01:31:29.439
No, Muther, I haven't.159301:31:29.880 --> 01:31:30.920
But where could he be?159401:31:31.479 --> 01:31:35.039
Toby's always on time for me. He's probably some place159501:31:35.079 --> 01:31:35.760
around the house.159601:31:36.159 --> 01:31:38.439
Now eat your lunch before it gets call home off.159701:31:38.880 --> 01:31:39.680
Where can he be?159801:31:40.000 --> 01:31:42.399
Toby will be along in a few minutes. We won't159901:31:42.439 --> 01:31:44.720
touch a bit of this food until he's eaten some160001:31:44.880 --> 01:31:45.039
of it.160101:31:45.279 --> 01:31:47.079
I do wish he were here.160201:31:47.640 --> 01:31:51.520
I'm so hungry, Louise. Don't touch a thing on that tray.160301:31:51.600 --> 01:31:52.840
It isn't safe here.160401:31:53.079 --> 01:31:53.520
Toby.160501:32:07.920 --> 01:32:09.600
Good evening at Martha and that Louise?160601:32:09.880 --> 01:32:11.319
How are you good evening? Roger?160701:32:11.479 --> 01:32:12.840
I have sadly here for you too.160801:32:15.159 --> 01:32:16.439
Neither of you ate your lunch.160901:32:16.840 --> 01:32:17.359
What's wrong?161001:32:17.680 --> 01:32:19.600
We weren't hungry?161101:32:19.880 --> 01:32:20.039
Esther?161201:32:20.279 --> 01:32:21.600
Have you found Toby yet?161301:32:22.159 --> 01:32:25.039
No, I've looked everywhere for him, but he seems to161401:32:25.119 --> 01:32:25.760
have disappeared.161501:32:26.199 --> 01:32:29.159
No, No, Now you mustn't worry. I'm sure he'll turn161601:32:29.279 --> 01:32:29.600
up all.161701:32:29.920 --> 01:32:32.880
Martha, you and Aunt Louise can't afford to miss meals161801:32:32.920 --> 01:32:33.880
in your state of health.161901:32:34.000 --> 01:32:36.880
Certainly not now we want you to eat everything that162001:32:36.960 --> 01:32:37.640
Hester's brought you.162101:32:38.359 --> 01:32:40.640
You'll make us very unhappy if you don't.162201:32:41.079 --> 01:32:41.800
Now, please eat it.162301:32:41.880 --> 01:32:42.359
Well, it's hot.162401:32:42.800 --> 01:32:44.079
Come along, Roger, I'll.162501:32:43.920 --> 01:32:44.960
Get you yourself all right?162601:32:45.039 --> 01:32:45.199
There?162701:32:45.680 --> 01:32:49.319
Did you hear but she said about Toby, Louise, he's162801:32:49.479 --> 01:32:50.479
very nonsense.162901:32:50.560 --> 01:32:51.319
They've killed him.163001:32:51.800 --> 01:32:54.079
I saw how angry they were last night when we163101:32:54.199 --> 01:32:57.039
fed Toby from our plates. They've killed him so he163201:32:57.199 --> 01:32:58.520
won't spoil their plans.163301:32:58.600 --> 01:33:01.000
Oh are we going to do?163401:33:01.880 --> 01:33:05.279
I'm so hungry that my head spins and I'm dizzy.163501:33:05.399 --> 01:33:06.800
I know, Louise, so am I?163601:33:07.520 --> 01:33:07.680
Oh?163701:33:07.880 --> 01:33:09.520
I hate them? I hate them.163801:33:09.680 --> 01:33:12.560
We're leaving them our money in our wheels. They'll get163901:33:12.640 --> 01:33:15.000
it soon enough. Why must they kill us?164001:33:15.119 --> 01:33:17.520
Because they're nothing but common murderers.164101:33:17.960 --> 01:33:21.239
I distrusted Roger from the minute Hester first rock into164201:33:21.319 --> 01:33:21.800
our house.164301:33:21.920 --> 01:33:23.159
Yes, it's his fault.164401:33:23.279 --> 01:33:24.520
He's changed Hester.164501:33:25.119 --> 01:33:27.439
She used to be such a sweet girl.164601:33:27.960 --> 01:33:30.560
There was only some way to get word to the village,164701:33:30.920 --> 01:33:35.319
or to bring somebody here to help us. Louise, I164801:33:35.600 --> 01:33:39.000
have an idea, What is it, Martha? There's one way164901:33:39.159 --> 01:33:40.119
to bring people here?165001:33:40.439 --> 01:33:41.159
What Martha?165101:33:41.560 --> 01:33:44.560
If we were to set fire to the house, somebody165201:33:44.640 --> 01:33:46.319
would be sure to see the flames.165301:33:46.560 --> 01:33:50.880
Yes, of course, and then the fire company would come home.165401:33:51.039 --> 01:33:53.560
Then we'd be able to tell them we'd be saved.165501:33:53.880 --> 01:33:57.119
Oh, but Martha Hester and Roger would put out the165601:33:57.279 --> 01:33:58.800
fire before it could get.165701:33:58.720 --> 01:33:59.920
Big enough to be seen.165801:34:00.279 --> 01:34:02.800
Louise, I know a way we can prevent them from165901:34:02.840 --> 01:34:05.840
putting out the fire. You do, Yes, we can.166001:34:05.840 --> 01:34:21.159
Save ourselves, Louise, We can save ourselves. Yeh, Toby, why166101:34:21.159 --> 01:34:23.039
are you looking down the cellar stairs like that?166201:34:23.560 --> 01:34:24.319
Now you should be in.166301:34:24.399 --> 01:34:27.119
Your room, certainly should. It's drafty out here in the hall.166401:34:27.479 --> 01:34:29.359
Now close the cellar door and go back to your room.166501:34:29.439 --> 01:34:32.399
But I heard Toby crying he's down in the cellar,166601:34:32.479 --> 01:34:34.720
and I won't go to my room until I get him.166701:34:35.119 --> 01:34:37.600
Mark, Roger, just to put out in Martha's mind at ease,166801:34:37.800 --> 01:34:39.680
why don't you go down the cellar and see if166901:34:39.720 --> 01:34:40.520
Toby is there?167001:34:40.720 --> 01:34:41.520
All right?167101:34:41.960 --> 01:34:42.119
When?167201:34:42.119 --> 01:34:46.079
If you ask me, please help him. Look for Toby Hester.167301:34:46.359 --> 01:34:48.840
You'll find him so much quicker if you both have fully.167401:34:50.640 --> 01:34:53.640
Oh, very well, But you go back to your rooms.167501:34:53.680 --> 01:34:56.479
You don't catch cold, Roger.167601:34:56.840 --> 01:34:57.319
You see.167701:34:58.920 --> 01:35:02.720
In the cellar, you'll see just how smart you are167801:35:03.079 --> 01:35:08.720
trying to poison us. Uh, you won't stop us from escaping.167901:35:08.840 --> 01:35:10.640
Now I'm just get Louise.168001:35:11.279 --> 01:35:13.199
Louise, Louise, it worked.168101:35:13.600 --> 01:35:16.000
You mean you were able to lock them in.168201:35:16.079 --> 01:35:19.039
The cellars, and with the door knocked they can't get down.168301:35:23.920 --> 01:35:25.520
They found out they're locked in her.168401:35:25.640 --> 01:35:28.399
Don't you worry about it, Louise. I'll take care of everything.168501:35:28.560 --> 01:35:32.000
What are you doing with that kerosene, lamplock pouring the168601:35:32.119 --> 01:35:33.439
kerosene around the rooms?168701:35:33.479 --> 01:35:34.640
Who will burn better?168801:35:35.279 --> 01:35:35.680
Oh? Yeah?168901:35:36.359 --> 01:35:37.760
Are you ready to leave, Louise?169001:35:37.920 --> 01:35:41.960
Yes, Martin, listen, I'll strike the match and start the fire.169101:35:44.880 --> 01:35:47.159
How quickly it's starting to splay.169201:35:47.840 --> 01:35:48.600
We've got to leave.169301:35:49.119 --> 01:35:52.000
I'll push your wheelchair, Louise, and you try to help169401:35:52.079 --> 01:35:53.640
by rolling the fiels.169501:35:54.199 --> 01:35:57.840
Mother, we're coming along.169601:35:58.119 --> 01:35:58.920
I stay.169701:36:00.399 --> 01:36:09.840
If Papa, I do hate to do this, Louise.169801:36:09.960 --> 01:36:12.600
You mustn't waste any pity on them, even if they169901:36:12.680 --> 01:36:15.439
are our niece and nephew and nothing but common murderers.170001:36:15.600 --> 01:36:17.119
Yes, I suppose you're right.170101:36:17.359 --> 01:36:17.520
Now.170201:36:17.840 --> 01:36:23.319
I'll just open the front door and we'll be free. Now,170301:36:24.119 --> 01:36:34.880
old aheels free. Just you eat more and we'll be safe. Yes, How,170401:36:34.920 --> 01:36:37.560
we're far enough away from the house to be perfectly.170501:36:37.960 --> 01:36:40.600
Why the whole house is on fire.170601:36:41.520 --> 01:36:43.600
Do you think they can see it in the village170701:36:43.720 --> 01:36:46.319
by no, I'm sure they do.170801:36:46.840 --> 01:36:49.640
Now, remember, Louise, when the fire company gets here, we170901:36:49.720 --> 01:36:51.039
don't know what happened.171001:36:50.760 --> 01:36:53.600
To Roger and estor We've just managed to get out ourselves.171101:36:53.680 --> 01:36:56.880
Yes, if we told them what we were forced to171201:36:57.000 --> 01:37:00.159
do to escape, we have to reveal that our own oh,171301:37:00.399 --> 01:37:03.319
niice and nephew were poisonous murderess.171401:37:03.840 --> 01:37:06.239
They don't want to disgrace the family name.171501:37:06.319 --> 01:37:06.680
Louise.171601:37:06.840 --> 01:37:09.000
Oh no, Martha, of course, not.171701:37:13.479 --> 01:37:13.800
Knowing.171801:37:19.199 --> 01:37:20.760
And here comes the fire engine.171901:37:20.920 --> 01:37:23.319
Louise, you saved, We are saved.172001:37:33.000 --> 01:37:34.359
Good morning, Judge.172101:37:34.119 --> 01:37:37.880
Morris, Good morning, Miss Martha, missus Louise. I trust you172201:37:38.000 --> 01:37:39.960
well after that terrible ordeal last night.172301:37:40.119 --> 01:37:41.920
Oh we're feeling much better.172401:37:42.239 --> 01:37:43.600
Thank you, Judge Morris.172501:37:43.920 --> 01:37:46.520
I know it'll be painful for you, but now that172601:37:46.600 --> 01:37:48.399
your niece and never you are gone, we must plan172701:37:48.520 --> 01:37:49.119
for your future.172801:37:49.319 --> 01:37:51.039
Oh, you don't have to bother, Judge.172901:37:51.359 --> 01:37:53.520
All we want to do is move back to our173001:37:53.600 --> 01:37:56.560
old house, hire a few servants, and live as we173101:37:56.720 --> 01:38:00.199
used to. And I was wondering if you could rang173201:38:00.319 --> 01:38:03.000
to have Mary Thompson come live with us. I won't173301:38:03.079 --> 01:38:05.920
hear of her going to that dreadful home for the infirm.173401:38:06.520 --> 01:38:08.000
Why the poor house would be the.173501:38:08.079 --> 01:38:08.560
Death of her.173601:38:08.640 --> 01:38:11.279
Oh no, we can't let her go there.173701:38:11.640 --> 01:38:14.000
With all the money father leftist, there's no reason why173801:38:14.079 --> 01:38:14.520
she should.173901:38:15.439 --> 01:38:18.479
Ladies, I'd hoped I'd never have to reveal the truth174001:38:18.560 --> 01:38:21.239
to you, but now it appears I must the truth.174101:38:21.720 --> 01:38:23.079
I don't understand, Judge.174201:38:23.520 --> 01:38:24.720
Some weeks ago, the.174301:38:24.760 --> 01:38:26.840
Bonds and the trust fund your father left you became174401:38:26.920 --> 01:38:29.840
utterly worthless what your never your niece were afraid the174501:38:29.880 --> 01:38:31.880
shock of learning you are penniless would be too much174601:38:31.920 --> 01:38:34.039
for you, so it was decided to keep the news174701:38:34.119 --> 01:38:36.520
from you. That's why the three of us persuaded you174801:38:36.600 --> 01:38:38.880
to move in with him. Your house here in the174901:38:38.960 --> 01:38:40.680
village had to be sold to meet the debts of175001:38:40.720 --> 01:38:41.159
the estate.175101:38:41.279 --> 01:38:44.800
But that can't be father left us so much, it's.175201:38:44.720 --> 01:38:45.760
All worthless now.175301:38:46.439 --> 01:38:48.319
Perhaps I should have told you this a month ago,175401:38:49.119 --> 01:38:50.760
but your niece and never you wouldn't hear of it.175501:38:50.960 --> 01:38:52.960
In spite of the fact that they had only Roger's175601:38:52.960 --> 01:38:54.960
salary to live on. They were determined to prevent you175701:38:55.039 --> 01:38:56.600
from ever learning of your misfortune.175801:38:56.720 --> 01:39:02.279
But the deaths of poor Queenie into George Gibson.175901:39:02.840 --> 01:39:07.560
George Gibson, Yes, I'm afraid I don't understand. Surely you176001:39:07.720 --> 01:39:10.000
heard that he was killed, the tire blew out and176101:39:10.119 --> 01:39:10.920
his car turned over.176201:39:11.199 --> 01:39:12.680
You mean he wasn't murdered?176301:39:13.239 --> 01:39:13.840
Certainly not.176401:39:14.239 --> 01:39:16.319
Oh are you feeling well?176501:39:16.720 --> 01:39:18.039
Has my new has been too much for you?176601:39:18.199 --> 01:39:18.359
Now?176701:39:18.800 --> 01:39:18.840
No?176801:39:20.119 --> 01:39:23.199
Well, now that your niece, have you a gone? There's176901:39:23.239 --> 01:39:25.640
no one to support you. I'm afraid there's only one177001:39:25.720 --> 01:39:26.239
thing left?177101:39:26.640 --> 01:39:27.520
One thing left?177201:39:28.199 --> 01:39:28.560
What's that?177301:39:29.319 --> 01:39:34.199
I'm sorry to say. Believe me, I am the County177401:39:34.319 --> 01:39:37.039
Home for the Infirm, the poor house.177501:39:49.560 --> 01:39:53.399
And that is the tale of escape by death, as177601:39:53.439 --> 01:39:55.239
it is written in the Sealed Book.177701:39:56.319 --> 01:39:58.720
Louise and Martha, because they.177801:39:58.720 --> 01:40:01.359
Could not believe that the deaths of their cat was177901:40:01.359 --> 01:40:05.239
an accident, convinced themselves that they were in danger of178001:40:05.359 --> 01:40:10.279
being killed, and in their frantic efforts to escape, ruthlessly178101:40:10.439 --> 01:40:15.880
destroyed their only protectors. Strange other ways in which fate178201:40:16.399 --> 01:40:23.000
plays tricks on mere mortels. The sound of the great178301:40:23.079 --> 01:40:26.079
Gong tells me it's time to close the Sealed Book178401:40:26.159 --> 01:40:26.760
once more.178501:40:27.119 --> 01:40:30.239
One moment, Keeper of the book, What story from the178601:40:30.319 --> 01:40:32.279
Sealed Book will you tell us next time?178701:40:32.640 --> 01:40:36.720
Next time. What kind of a tale would you like,178801:40:37.239 --> 01:40:42.520
a history of ghosts, of vampires, of ware wolves howling178901:40:42.600 --> 01:40:46.640
in the night, A tale of dark plots and evil deeds,179001:40:47.359 --> 01:40:49.920
of a strange fate overtaking the guilty.179101:40:50.800 --> 01:40:51.520
Let me see.179201:40:52.359 --> 01:40:54.760
I'll find one for you in just a moment.179301:42:39.600 --> 01:42:42.560
And now, Keeper of the book, have you found the179401:42:42.640 --> 01:42:44.319
story that you'll tell next time?179501:42:44.640 --> 01:42:48.359
Yes, yes, I found one for you. It's the amazing179601:42:48.600 --> 01:42:52.399
story of a woman's jealousy, so brief that it would179701:42:52.479 --> 01:42:55.760
not let her lae quietly in her grieve, but made179801:42:55.840 --> 01:42:59.760
her sec revenge even from behind the dark veil of179901:43:01.079 --> 01:43:03.880
I call it its etch.180001:43:04.119 --> 01:43:11.159
Tomhouse, be sure to be with us next time to180101:43:11.279 --> 01:43:19.720
hear another strange and mysterious story from lessial book. The180201:43:19.840 --> 01:43:22.560
Sealed Book, written by Bob Arthur and David Cogan, is180301:43:22.600 --> 01:43:24.640
produced and directed by Jack McGregor.180401:43:27.680 --> 01:43:31.399
Well make sure you blow on this before you take180501:43:31.439 --> 01:43:36.079
a sip. I wouldn't want you to burn yourself, not180601:43:36.319 --> 01:43:41.800
in weather like this. It be so ironic. It sure180701:43:42.079 --> 01:43:45.479
is very cold for this time of year. But I180801:43:45.600 --> 01:43:50.319
suppose in a way that's just festive. So I'll learn180901:43:50.439 --> 01:43:58.079
to enjoy it, and I hope you do too. Times181001:43:58.279 --> 01:44:03.399
like these remind me of very long ago, a time181101:44:03.600 --> 01:44:10.960
to string lights, to make mary, and to never trust181201:44:11.039 --> 01:44:11.720
a stranger.181301:44:13.319 --> 01:44:15.920
And now stay tuned for the program that has rated181401:44:16.000 --> 01:44:19.479
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than181501:44:19.600 --> 01:44:23.520
any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal181601:44:23.640 --> 01:44:24.479
Oil Program.181701:44:25.640 --> 01:44:26.920
The Whistler.181801:44:36.880 --> 01:44:38.359
UH five.181901:44:40.720 --> 01:44:47.439
Name SIG.182001:44:49.640 --> 01:44:53.239
Signal, the famous go Farther Gasoline invites you to sit182101:44:53.359 --> 01:44:57.960
back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.182201:45:14.359 --> 01:45:18.000
I am the whistler, and I know many things. For182301:45:18.159 --> 01:45:19.039
I walk by night.182401:45:19.840 --> 01:45:22.680
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of182501:45:22.800 --> 01:45:26.000
men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,182601:45:26.760 --> 01:45:30.399
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.182701:45:33.960 --> 01:45:37.720
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's strange story.182801:45:38.760 --> 01:45:40.800
You can't trust a stranger.182901:45:55.039 --> 01:45:57.640
As you walk down the crowded corridor from the District183001:45:57.680 --> 01:46:00.840
Attorney's office, you can feel the stairs and hear the whispers.183101:46:01.239 --> 01:46:04.439
There's Frank Maloy. He's getting out, but not for long.183201:46:05.399 --> 01:46:08.279
It's costing you ten thousand dollars to walk out that183301:46:08.399 --> 01:46:11.239
front door. But it's worth it, isn't it, Frank, Because183401:46:11.279 --> 01:46:14.479
you have a plan at least part of one. Yes,183501:46:15.279 --> 01:46:17.760
you reach the front entrance, push open the heavy door,183601:46:17.880 --> 01:46:21.439
and go out into the street. There at the curb,183701:46:21.560 --> 01:46:25.079
you recognize the long yellow convertible and the attractive blonde183801:46:25.119 --> 01:46:29.760
sitting inside. She slides over as you slip in behind183901:46:29.840 --> 01:46:30.279
the wheel.184001:46:38.840 --> 01:46:39.960
In again, out again.184101:46:40.319 --> 01:46:43.079
Yeah, how was jail this time?184201:46:43.159 --> 01:46:46.640
When I read in the papers they're gonna put you184301:46:46.720 --> 01:46:50.720
away for a long, long time after the small formality.184401:46:50.159 --> 01:46:50.640
Of a trial.184501:46:50.720 --> 01:46:53.199
Well, I don't believe everything you read. I'm not going184601:46:53.279 --> 01:46:53.840
on trial.184701:46:54.199 --> 01:46:54.520
You are.184801:46:54.680 --> 01:46:57.920
No, I'm gonna be around long enough to give my chance.184901:46:58.560 --> 01:47:01.039
You're gonna jump in exactly what I'm gonna do.185001:47:01.239 --> 01:47:02.760
You'll lose your ten thousand dollar.185101:47:02.640 --> 01:47:05.600
Bars, doesn't matter. I've got plenty, and it's put away185201:47:05.600 --> 01:47:06.800
where I can get at it in a hurry.185301:47:06.960 --> 01:47:07.560
Where will you go?185401:47:08.319 --> 01:47:12.479
We we're going together, baby, I'm ready, Frank.185501:47:13.239 --> 01:47:15.520
I don't know how where we're going, but we're getting185601:47:15.520 --> 01:47:17.600
out of the States. We can beat it to a185701:47:17.720 --> 01:47:20.760
Vanna and then maybe South America. I'll get a divorce185801:47:20.800 --> 01:47:23.640
and we're all set. I've got enough money to last185901:47:23.720 --> 01:47:24.720
us the rest of our lives.186001:47:24.840 --> 01:47:27.560
This sounds wonderful, But how do you expect to get away.186101:47:27.640 --> 01:47:29.800
The moment they miss you, they'll be watching for you everywhere.186201:47:29.880 --> 01:47:32.079
Yeah, I know Da wants to see me in a186301:47:32.159 --> 01:47:34.960
couple of days. So whatever we're gonna do, we're gonna186401:47:34.960 --> 01:47:35.680
have to move fast.186501:47:36.000 --> 01:47:38.399
We can't just take a plane or a train before186601:47:38.439 --> 01:47:40.600
we start running. Frankly, we have to think of something,186701:47:40.880 --> 01:47:43.800
some kind of plan. Yeah, I know, what about a186801:47:43.880 --> 01:47:46.439
private plane and pilot. Let's find out about it right away.186901:47:46.600 --> 01:47:49.600
No, there's something else I've got to find out first.187001:47:50.479 --> 01:47:52.720
What do you mean I'm going out to the ranch.187101:47:53.439 --> 01:47:57.000
I'm gonna see my wife. You're going out to see Martha.187201:47:57.199 --> 01:48:02.760
That's right, Why, Vivian, didn't you ever wonder how the187301:48:02.840 --> 01:48:05.279
district attorney got hold of all my records and books187401:48:05.319 --> 01:48:07.680
that I get. You think I sent them to them?187501:48:08.239 --> 01:48:10.199
You think I wanted the smoothest gambling syne in the187601:48:10.239 --> 01:48:13.680
state to come crashing down around my neck. Oh, but187701:48:13.840 --> 01:48:16.960
somebody else did. It had to be somebody I trusted,187801:48:17.000 --> 01:48:19.880
somebody close to me. I want to be sure it187901:48:20.079 --> 01:48:22.800
wasn't Martha. And they have enough on me to put188001:48:22.840 --> 01:48:25.640
me away for twenty years. I want to know where188101:48:25.640 --> 01:48:26.000
they got it.188201:48:26.520 --> 01:48:27.600
What difference does it make?188301:48:27.680 --> 01:48:27.800
Now.188401:48:27.880 --> 01:48:29.399
All that matter is now is getting away.188501:48:29.520 --> 01:48:32.720
We'll get away, baby, don't worry. But first I want188601:48:32.720 --> 01:48:35.600
to see Martha. I just want to know.188701:48:44.039 --> 01:48:46.680
As you drive through the city and across the Bay Bridge,188801:48:46.760 --> 01:48:48.079
your thoughts dwell upon.188901:48:48.039 --> 01:48:49.439
Your wife, Martha, don't they.189001:48:49.560 --> 01:48:53.119
Frank you begin to think back, wondering just how much189101:48:53.239 --> 01:48:56.760
Martha knew about you and your organization, Wondering if she189201:48:56.840 --> 01:49:00.880
knew about Vivian or any of the others. Wondering if189301:49:00.920 --> 01:49:03.760
it could have been Martha who brought everything crashing down,189401:49:03.920 --> 01:49:04.880
sending you to jail.189501:49:05.840 --> 01:49:07.840
And there are other things to be thought of.189601:49:08.720 --> 01:49:10.600
How will you manage to get out of the country189701:49:10.640 --> 01:49:14.159
before the district attorney knows you're gone? Chartered plane and189801:49:14.279 --> 01:49:17.760
a private pilot might work. And you do have friends189901:49:17.800 --> 01:49:20.000
in Florida who would help you and Vivian get out190001:49:20.000 --> 01:49:23.720
of the country. After an hour of driving and thinking,190101:49:23.800 --> 01:49:27.359
you're suddenly startled as Vivian pulls violently at your arm.190201:49:32.359 --> 01:49:32.920
Can I hit him?190301:49:33.279 --> 01:49:34.359
I don't know.190401:49:34.560 --> 01:49:36.199
He's lying by the side of the highway.190501:49:37.880 --> 01:49:39.439
Oh was he doing out the middle of the highway?190601:49:39.840 --> 01:49:40.560
Look, he's getting up.190701:49:40.720 --> 01:49:43.319
We better have a look at him. Come on, he190801:49:43.600 --> 01:49:48.520
is getting up doesn't look like he's hurt too badly. Hey, hey,190901:49:48.560 --> 01:49:52.600
you all right? I don't know, I think so. What191001:49:52.720 --> 01:49:54.239
were you doing out the middle of the highway.191101:49:54.359 --> 01:49:55.560
I was trying to catch it ride.191201:49:55.720 --> 01:49:57.479
What does anything feel broken?191301:49:57.880 --> 01:49:59.760
No, no, I don't think so.191401:50:00.079 --> 01:50:01.680
I saw you coming right at me and I dove191501:50:01.760 --> 01:50:02.680
for the side of the road.191601:50:03.239 --> 01:50:03.880
You didn't hit me.191701:50:04.000 --> 01:50:08.119
Oh, it's a relief. Looks like my trousers are finished.191801:50:08.279 --> 01:50:09.399
You're sure you're all wrong?191901:50:09.680 --> 01:50:12.560
Yeah, yeah, yeah, forget it. It's my own fault for192001:50:12.680 --> 01:50:13.920
standing in the middle of the highway.192101:50:14.439 --> 01:50:23.840
Hey. What's your name? My name, yeah, Chuck. Why well, Chuck.192201:50:23.920 --> 01:50:25.920
I feel kind of bad about this. I think the192301:50:26.039 --> 01:50:28.159
least I can do is offer you a ride. Do192401:50:28.319 --> 01:50:32.039
something about those trousers too. Forget it, forget it. It's192501:50:32.119 --> 01:50:35.039
my fault. Wow, we can't leave you standing here. We're192601:50:35.079 --> 01:50:39.359
going another ten miles. Okay, let me get my hat192701:50:39.399 --> 01:50:40.039
out of the ditch.192801:50:41.720 --> 01:50:42.039
Thank you.192901:50:42.079 --> 01:50:43.079
You have to give him a lift.193001:50:43.119 --> 01:50:44.279
He admits it was his fault.193101:50:44.319 --> 01:50:45.039
Let's get out of here.193201:50:45.239 --> 01:50:48.600
To notice something, Vivian, something really interesting about that fellow.193301:50:49.279 --> 01:50:51.479
What are you talking about? Look, he's just turned around.193401:50:51.560 --> 01:50:56.880
Look at him, now, look at me. Notice anything. Frank say,193501:50:56.920 --> 01:51:00.520
it looks not like me. Huh, same sign build even193601:51:00.560 --> 01:51:03.840
as features. Yeah, if I worked it out right, I193701:51:03.880 --> 01:51:07.640
could get away with it, get away with Just think193801:51:07.680 --> 01:51:09.960
for them how much easier it would be for us193901:51:10.000 --> 01:51:12.199
to get away if everybody thought.194001:51:12.000 --> 01:51:12.680
That I was dead.194101:51:28.239 --> 01:51:30.920
If you really want to protect the money invested in194201:51:31.000 --> 01:51:34.159
your car, then the motor oil for you is signals194301:51:34.199 --> 01:51:38.439
amazing new heavy duty oil that reduces engine ware fifty194401:51:38.600 --> 01:51:43.760
percent Signal Premium heavy duty Signal Premium. Now there's the194501:51:43.840 --> 01:51:48.079
oil that really protects your car. Disproved and improved heavy194601:51:48.159 --> 01:51:51.600
duty signal oil does more, much more than just lubricate.194701:51:52.199 --> 01:51:56.960
In addition, Signal Premium motor oil cools, cleans, cushions, seals,194801:51:57.000 --> 01:52:01.560
and protects result tests under all types of driving conditions.194901:52:01.680 --> 01:52:06.680
Proved new Signaled Premium motor oil reduces engine ware fifty percent.195001:52:07.319 --> 01:52:10.680
Your engine keeps its light new pepin power twice as long.195101:52:11.359 --> 01:52:14.399
So if you're still using lazy, old fashioned oil that195201:52:14.520 --> 01:52:17.800
merely lubricates, it's high time to make a change for195301:52:17.880 --> 01:52:21.479
the better. Change oil. Next time at a signal service station.195401:52:21.960 --> 01:52:25.840
Change to new, harder working, signaled Premium motor oil that195501:52:26.000 --> 01:52:29.159
reduces engine ware fifty percent.195601:52:32.399 --> 01:52:37.479
Signal gasoline your goal, I'll cover the cacoline.195701:52:54.760 --> 01:52:57.399
Almost every piece of the plan seems to fit together,195801:52:57.479 --> 01:52:57.840
doesn't it.195901:52:57.920 --> 01:52:58.159
Frank.196001:52:58.640 --> 01:53:00.880
If the police thought you were dead, you and Vivian196101:53:00.960 --> 01:53:03.159
could take your time about getting out of the country.196201:53:03.600 --> 01:53:06.600
You could go knowing they weren't watching for you. You'll196301:53:06.640 --> 01:53:08.800
study the man whom you almost hit on the highway,196401:53:09.239 --> 01:53:12.199
and already you're planning the last few hours of his life.196501:53:12.239 --> 01:53:13.880
I'd be real nice to him, Vivian and get him196601:53:13.920 --> 01:53:16.319
to talk about himself. We have to find out as196701:53:16.399 --> 01:53:18.039
much about him as we can. You just leave it196801:53:18.079 --> 01:53:21.359
to me, Frank, Okay, I'll set check. Yeah, let's go196901:53:21.479 --> 01:53:22.119
then huh.197001:53:33.760 --> 01:53:37.840
Some buggy. Yeah, always promised myself i'd have one of197101:53:37.880 --> 01:53:38.479
these someday.197201:53:39.720 --> 01:53:42.479
Look at me. I don't even have bus fare. My197301:53:42.600 --> 01:53:44.920
clothes are dirty and wrinkled, and I need a shave.197401:53:46.279 --> 01:53:49.319
I look like a tramp. I don't blame people for197501:53:49.479 --> 01:53:50.199
passing me by.197601:53:50.520 --> 01:53:53.000
Where were you headed, Jock? Los Angeles?197701:53:53.039 --> 01:53:55.600
I guess they tell me the Knights are bombing down there.197801:53:56.159 --> 01:53:58.520
It makes a difference when you're sleep in parked cars.197901:53:58.760 --> 01:54:00.840
But don't you have any friends in Los Angeles?198001:54:01.239 --> 01:54:04.520
I don't have any friends anywhere. That's a pretty broad statement.198101:54:04.640 --> 01:54:08.600
Check must have friends somewhere, maybe back home.198201:54:09.119 --> 01:54:09.680
I wouldn't know.198301:54:10.800 --> 01:54:16.560
I haven't been home in a long time. Been everywhere else, Australia, Africa, Brazil,198401:54:17.159 --> 01:54:20.800
been working on freighters. Just got back to the States198501:54:20.880 --> 01:54:21.600
last week.198601:54:21.960 --> 01:54:26.159
Just last week. Huh right, been gone nearly five years. Oh,198701:54:26.399 --> 01:54:29.760
where is your home? I come from a place called Hyannas.198801:54:30.079 --> 01:54:30.560
Never hear it.198901:54:31.199 --> 01:54:34.439
It's in Massachusetts, Cape Cod No, I never heard of it.199001:54:34.520 --> 01:54:35.640
It's a fishing village.199101:54:35.760 --> 01:54:35.920
Oh.199201:54:36.640 --> 01:54:39.000
Still, it doesn't seem possible that a man doesn't have199301:54:39.039 --> 01:54:39.640
any friends.199401:54:40.079 --> 01:54:41.640
Oh, you must have a girlfriend.199501:54:43.840 --> 01:54:47.439
Had a girl once in Hyanna's The name was Mami.199601:54:47.960 --> 01:54:49.680
Maybe it's a.199701:54:49.720 --> 01:54:52.000
Long time ago, when I was young and foolish.199801:54:52.760 --> 01:54:55.279
Whatever happened to Maymie, I wouldn't know.199901:54:56.319 --> 01:54:58.199
I wrote it for a while, but when I didn't200001:54:58.239 --> 01:55:01.800
get any answer to my letters, they just forgot about Maybe, say, Chuck,200101:55:01.880 --> 01:55:03.520
tell me what kind of work.200201:55:03.359 --> 01:55:03.680
Do you do.200301:55:04.880 --> 01:55:07.600
I'm one of those guys who can do anything until200401:55:07.640 --> 01:55:09.520
you pin me down, and then it turns out I200501:55:09.600 --> 01:55:10.680
can't do much of anything.200601:55:10.920 --> 01:55:14.800
Well, I'm sure you'll fit in somewhere someday. Just haven't200701:55:14.840 --> 01:55:15.560
run into it yet.200801:55:15.920 --> 01:55:21.000
Maybe in the meantime, I like drifting around the world.200901:55:23.760 --> 01:55:26.520
I don't talk it too much. I don't get the201001:55:26.680 --> 01:55:29.960
chance to talk to people very often, especially about myself.201101:55:31.119 --> 01:55:33.319
Everybody likes to talk about themselves.201201:55:34.960 --> 01:55:36.159
What are you going to do when you get back201301:55:36.159 --> 01:55:40.359
to La look for work? I guess I'm broke. Well,201401:55:40.399 --> 01:55:42.159
if you really want a job, Chuck, maybe I can201501:55:42.239 --> 01:55:48.079
do something for you. What do you mean, Well, do201601:55:48.159 --> 01:55:51.359
you have a ten bar? No? I own a string201701:55:51.439 --> 01:55:54.079
of bars throughout the valley. If you're willing to learn,201801:55:54.119 --> 01:55:55.840
maybe I can put you to work as a bartender.201901:55:56.560 --> 01:56:01.760
Me a bartender, A guy's on his feet a lot,202001:56:01.840 --> 01:56:04.760
and that kind of work. You can make good money. Yeah, yeah,202101:56:05.199 --> 01:56:11.279
I can believe that. But tell me something, why all202201:56:11.399 --> 01:56:12.359
the interest in me?202301:56:12.720 --> 01:56:14.920
Oh? We might have run over you, maybe killed you.202401:56:15.520 --> 01:56:17.119
I think the least Frank can do is try and202501:56:17.159 --> 01:56:18.039
help you out a little.202601:56:19.840 --> 01:56:22.640
Do you do you think I could learn to tend bar?202701:56:22.880 --> 01:56:23.000
Oh?202801:56:23.079 --> 01:56:24.319
I'm sure you could, Jock.202901:56:25.720 --> 01:56:29.760
It's an interesting proposition, mister malloy. Just call me Frank.203001:56:30.199 --> 01:56:32.399
I'm Vivian Jack. Hi.203101:56:35.479 --> 01:56:36.119
How do you like that?203201:56:37.239 --> 01:56:40.560
Yesterday I was bumming around Today I'm going to be203301:56:40.600 --> 01:56:41.279
a bartender.203401:56:42.840 --> 01:56:44.800
Who knows what will happen tomorrow?203501:56:51.399 --> 01:56:54.199
You know, don't you, Frank, You know exactly what's in203601:56:54.319 --> 01:56:57.479
store for Chuck tomorrow. As a matter of fact, you203701:56:57.600 --> 01:57:01.960
wonder if you'll even be alive tomorrow. Because now you're settlement.203801:57:02.000 --> 01:57:03.960
He will do fine as a part of your plan.203901:57:04.600 --> 01:57:07.319
No one knows about him. No one even knows where204001:57:07.359 --> 01:57:08.960
he is. No one would miss him if.204101:57:08.920 --> 01:57:10.800
He disappeared, he assured you of that.204201:57:12.600 --> 01:57:15.680
As you turn off the main highway towards your small ranch,204301:57:15.760 --> 01:57:18.359
you already have the first stages of the plan ready.204401:57:19.600 --> 01:57:21.119
You stop the car at the gate.204501:57:23.439 --> 01:57:25.159
I have to take care of some business here. Check.204601:57:25.560 --> 01:57:27.479
You go with Vivian. She'll put you out for the afternoon.204701:57:27.600 --> 01:57:30.760
Whatever you say, Boss, second of my apartment. Huh, here's204801:57:30.800 --> 01:57:33.920
his key. I'll call you when as soon as I've204901:57:33.960 --> 01:57:35.479
made the arrangements we were talking about.205001:57:35.800 --> 01:57:36.800
Will they take long?205101:57:37.119 --> 01:57:41.840
No, everything will be taken care of by the night tonight. Yeah,205201:57:42.399 --> 01:57:44.439
and take good care of Check. Huh. Make him feel205301:57:44.439 --> 01:57:44.920
at home.205401:57:44.880 --> 01:57:46.159
Now, but we'll be at your place.205501:57:46.319 --> 01:57:50.359
You call me, I'll call him. Well. I see you205601:57:50.479 --> 01:57:53.600
late at night. Check your thing, mister molloy. Bye baby, fine.205701:58:01.439 --> 01:58:04.079
You watch them disappear down the road, Frank, and then205801:58:04.159 --> 01:58:08.319
you turned toward the house. Everything seems peaceful and undisturbed,205901:58:08.840 --> 01:58:11.119
and you realize how long it has been since you've206001:58:11.159 --> 01:58:14.279
come out to the ranch. As you reach the steps206101:58:14.319 --> 01:58:17.319
and put your hand to the door knocker, you wonder206201:58:17.399 --> 01:58:19.600
if Martha will be surprised to see you.206301:58:22.479 --> 01:58:27.880
Hello, Frank, Hello Martha, I I've come to see you.206401:58:29.119 --> 01:58:29.399
Come in.206501:58:33.079 --> 01:58:34.479
You don't seem surprised to see me.206601:58:35.680 --> 01:58:35.960
I'm not.206701:58:36.760 --> 01:58:40.479
You were expecting me, yes, and you knew I was206801:58:40.560 --> 01:58:41.079
out of jail.206901:58:42.359 --> 01:58:43.119
Sit down, Frank.207001:58:43.840 --> 01:58:45.079
Do you like a cup of coffee?207101:58:45.279 --> 01:58:49.159
No, nothing except Martha, I think you know turned me207201:58:49.239 --> 01:58:51.319
into the district attorney. Who was it?207301:58:52.439 --> 01:58:56.239
Why I did? I did what I thought was right.207401:58:58.560 --> 01:59:00.720
You must have known, Frank, always trusted you.207501:59:01.840 --> 01:59:03.239
You were the one person I thought I didn't have207601:59:03.239 --> 01:59:03.760
to worry about.207701:59:03.880 --> 01:59:04.920
That's it, exactly, Frank.207801:59:04.960 --> 01:59:07.399
You never worried about me. I don't think you even207901:59:07.439 --> 01:59:10.079
thought about me. There was a time when I was208001:59:10.159 --> 01:59:11.560
the most important thing in the world.208101:59:13.039 --> 01:59:13.720
Prison you belong.208201:59:13.800 --> 01:59:18.079
In prison, you become nothing more than a gangster, a hoodlum.208301:59:18.960 --> 01:59:21.960
You're not the man I married fifteen years ago. Little208401:59:22.000 --> 01:59:24.239
by little I watched you change. You began to make money,208501:59:24.279 --> 01:59:27.039
lots of money, and along with your money, you gained power.208601:59:27.399 --> 01:59:29.760
The more you got, the more you wanted, and anything208701:59:29.800 --> 01:59:31.119
you couldn't have you destroyed.208801:59:31.720 --> 01:59:32.800
What did you expect to do?208901:59:33.039 --> 01:59:36.760
Own everything and everyone? Some days I had to stop209001:59:36.840 --> 01:59:38.479
you for your own sake, and I did.209101:59:38.439 --> 01:59:39.760
It the only way I knew how.209201:59:41.199 --> 01:59:43.840
I cried for months because I knew the only way209301:59:43.880 --> 01:59:47.279
to stop you was just to call the district attorney.209401:59:48.960 --> 01:59:50.479
I did what I thought was right.209501:59:56.840 --> 01:59:59.399
Now you know, Frank, you know who betrayed you, and209601:59:59.520 --> 02:00:00.359
Wyatt was done.209702:00:00.920 --> 02:00:04.079
You begin to pace around the room, walking faster and faster,209802:00:04.560 --> 02:00:07.880
pumping into things and knocking them over. And suddenly you209902:00:08.000 --> 02:00:11.119
stop in front of the man. You see the clock,210002:00:11.239 --> 02:00:15.039
and the feeling of rage subside. You realize that by210102:00:15.159 --> 02:00:18.319
nine o'clock tonight, things will be all right, and Martha,210202:00:18.720 --> 02:00:22.479
conscientious Martha will have a strange punishment, won't she, Frank,210302:00:23.319 --> 02:00:27.800
You'll always believe she sends you to your death. After210402:00:27.880 --> 02:00:31.239
a long silence, Martha throws a shawl over her shoulders210502:00:31.319 --> 02:00:33.239
and walks outside.210602:01:06.399 --> 02:01:09.880
Hello, Frank, Vivian, everything all right? Yes, I've been listening210702:01:09.920 --> 02:01:11.279
to the story of Chuck's life.210802:01:11.800 --> 02:01:14.159
Jimsy's girlfriend Mamie was quite a gal.210902:01:14.920 --> 02:01:17.720
How our boughtenders in the other room, practicing with your liquor.211002:01:17.800 --> 02:01:19.640
But now listen, Vivian, get one of my suits out211102:01:19.640 --> 02:01:21.560
of the closet and give it to check. Have him211202:01:21.600 --> 02:01:24.920
shower and shave and put the suit on. We're going211302:01:25.000 --> 02:01:27.800
to a party, I understand. Tellom you're meeting me at211402:01:27.840 --> 02:01:30.000
one of my places up at the lake. Leave my211502:01:30.079 --> 02:01:32.640
apartment by eight thirty and drive up on skyline. Drive211602:01:32.760 --> 02:01:35.640
to Mountain View Club. Now, don't stop anywhere. When you211702:01:35.760 --> 02:01:38.119
get there, wait in the parking lot and back be211802:01:38.239 --> 02:01:39.199
there by nine o'clock.211902:01:39.279 --> 02:01:41.439
Clear, clear and simple.212002:01:42.680 --> 02:01:44.840
What exactly are you planning, Frank?212102:01:45.520 --> 02:01:49.840
Like I said, a party? I see good. May sure212202:01:49.840 --> 02:01:50.439
you've got it all.212302:01:50.720 --> 02:01:53.920
We'll see you at the party nine at nine?212402:02:05.600 --> 02:02:09.079
What are you doing out here, Martha? Listening to the cricket?212502:02:10.319 --> 02:02:11.119
It's a nice night.212602:02:11.880 --> 02:02:16.039
Yeah, Hm, who used to go riding on nights, likeness?212702:02:17.159 --> 02:02:17.840
You remember that?212802:02:18.279 --> 02:02:22.279
Of course, I'm surprised, Frank, are you.212902:02:23.720 --> 02:02:27.399
Well, here's another surprise for you, Martha. I'm not going213002:02:27.479 --> 02:02:30.880
to do anything about the fact that you've turned against me. Oh,213102:02:31.319 --> 02:02:34.399
matter of fact, when I leave here, I'm going for213202:02:34.479 --> 02:02:37.920
a little ride, one we often used to take together213302:02:39.159 --> 02:02:40.479
along Skyline Drive.213402:02:41.680 --> 02:02:44.880
Frank, what have you got on your mind?213502:02:45.720 --> 02:02:48.720
Just you, Martha. I'll be thinking of you.213602:02:50.479 --> 02:02:51.319
I'll get my coach.213702:02:51.439 --> 02:02:54.520
Oh no, no, Martha, wouldn't be right for you to213802:02:54.560 --> 02:03:00.880
go anywhere with a with a hoodlum, a criminal. Goodbye, Martha. Remember,213902:03:02.159 --> 02:03:03.000
I'll be thinking of you.214002:03:14.479 --> 02:03:17.000
The expression on her face, in her eyes that light you,214102:03:17.119 --> 02:03:19.840
doesn't it, Frank, Martha is still in love with you214202:03:19.960 --> 02:03:24.000
after all this time. And later, when your plan goes through,214302:03:24.159 --> 02:03:27.159
she'll have something to think about, won't she Something that214402:03:27.279 --> 02:03:32.239
will be her punishment. Yes, Martha, conscientious as she is,214502:03:32.720 --> 02:03:35.960
will feel deeply when Chuck's body is finally found in214602:03:36.039 --> 02:03:39.079
your car wearing your clothes at the bottom of the lake.214702:03:40.119 --> 02:03:44.239
Martha will always believe you've killed yourself because she turned214802:03:44.279 --> 02:03:47.720
you into the district attorney. And above all, she'll testify214902:03:47.880 --> 02:03:51.119
that you were heading for the Skyline Drive. That part215002:03:51.199 --> 02:03:56.960
will help eliminate the identification problem. High up on Skyline Drive,215102:03:57.079 --> 02:03:59.279
you pull into the parking lot of the Darkened club215202:03:59.640 --> 02:04:03.039
where you agreed to meet Vivian. A few minutes later,215302:04:03.159 --> 02:04:05.279
the headlights of her car come into.215402:04:05.159 --> 02:04:10.279
View right on time?215502:04:10.399 --> 02:04:13.560
But oh, oh high mister molloy, didn't know you were215602:04:13.600 --> 02:04:15.880
here yet. Say thanks for the suit.215702:04:16.279 --> 02:04:17.880
How do I look? Just fine? Check?215802:04:18.039 --> 02:04:19.279
Are we on time for the party?215902:04:19.359 --> 02:04:19.600
Frank?216002:04:19.760 --> 02:04:22.159
Oh, right on time? Oh say, Chuck, would you give216102:04:22.199 --> 02:04:23.520
me a hand with some stuff in my car? It's216202:04:23.600 --> 02:04:29.640
right over here, Vivian said, we were going to a party.216302:04:30.199 --> 02:04:31.800
Is it in that place up there? No?216402:04:32.119 --> 02:04:36.600
Not there, I didn't think so. Giant looks closed down. Sure,216502:04:36.720 --> 02:04:39.560
dark out here. What are we going to check this?216602:04:42.840 --> 02:04:45.880
Yeah, body's almost over a few check.216702:04:47.479 --> 02:04:48.079
What happened?216802:04:48.279 --> 02:04:50.159
I hit him? I'd be easy to handle this way.216902:04:50.960 --> 02:04:52.359
We'll that door open so I can put him in217002:04:52.359 --> 02:04:52.600
the car.217102:04:52.800 --> 02:04:54.840
Right, What are we going to do now?217202:04:55.119 --> 02:04:57.520
I'm stay here about five minutes and then drive up217302:04:57.520 --> 02:05:00.760
the highway about one mile the road that sharp bend217402:05:00.800 --> 02:05:03.359
around the lake. I'll be waiting. I'll be waiting there217502:05:03.439 --> 02:05:05.760
off the highway. Link your lights as you're approach, and217602:05:05.760 --> 02:05:06.600
I'll come out and wave it.217702:05:09.199 --> 02:05:12.000
I thought you were going to bring Martha with you.217802:05:12.920 --> 02:05:16.920
No, I've taken care of Martha another way.217902:05:25.520 --> 02:05:27.600
You drive out of the parking lot and in a218002:05:27.680 --> 02:05:30.119
few minutes you reach the sharp curve in the highway,218102:05:30.600 --> 02:05:33.039
pull over and stop where the edge drops off into218202:05:33.079 --> 02:05:35.720
the deep end of the lake. And it only takes218302:05:35.800 --> 02:05:38.680
seconds to drag Chuck's body to the front seat behind218402:05:38.720 --> 02:05:42.399
the wheel. Carefully, you go through his pockets and remove everything,218502:05:43.119 --> 02:05:46.720
then plant your belongings in his pockets. You put your218602:05:46.880 --> 02:05:51.199
ring and watch on him, and everything is ready. You218702:05:51.359 --> 02:05:54.279
push the clutch in, put the car in gear. As218802:05:54.319 --> 02:05:56.840
you jump back away from the car, it jerks forward218902:05:56.880 --> 02:06:07.960
and over the ledge to disappear in the deep black219002:06:08.119 --> 02:06:09.119
water of the lake.219102:06:24.119 --> 02:06:28.079
Is it all over save for yourself by the time219202:06:28.159 --> 02:06:29.840
they pull the car to the water to look like219302:06:29.960 --> 02:06:32.880
Frank Molloy was drowned when his car skidded off the219402:06:33.000 --> 02:06:37.199
road and crashed into the lake. That's hope. So the219502:06:37.399 --> 02:06:40.119
weeks before they find the body and the water will219602:06:40.119 --> 02:06:43.199
make positive identification pretty difficult, but they'll find it enough219702:06:43.239 --> 02:06:50.560
there to think it's me. And Matho will help too. Yeah,219802:06:51.199 --> 02:06:52.960
all we have to do is hide out until he's219902:06:53.000 --> 02:06:57.239
found and we'll be free. VIVI, where do we go now? Well,220002:06:57.319 --> 02:06:58.800
first we have to stop at a couple of places220102:06:58.840 --> 02:07:01.039
down the valley pick up the money I put away.220202:07:01.439 --> 02:07:04.319
That's a must. We'll drive on to Los Angeles where220302:07:04.359 --> 02:07:05.039
we can hide out.220402:07:06.199 --> 02:07:10.840
Then we'll see whatever you say, Frank, Now, let's.220502:07:10.720 --> 02:07:18.880
Get out of here. You know it's funny your mother220602:07:19.000 --> 02:07:22.760
tried to send me to jail. When she recognizes my clothes,220702:07:22.840 --> 02:07:26.560
her story, more than anything, will help to set me free.220802:07:38.119 --> 02:07:42.159
Throughout the Western States from Canada to Mexico, one gasoline220902:07:42.239 --> 02:07:48.000
is famous as the go farther gasoline. It's signal gasoline. Now, naturally,221002:07:48.119 --> 02:07:50.720
we're mighty proud of signals good mile age, which has221102:07:50.800 --> 02:07:54.319
built that reputation. But equally important to you as a221202:07:54.399 --> 02:07:57.439
motorist is the way signal gives you such good mileage.221302:07:58.319 --> 02:08:01.560
You see, today's signal helps your engine runs so efficiently.221402:08:01.680 --> 02:08:05.600
You save gasoline three ways. One you save gasoline with221502:08:05.680 --> 02:08:10.520
signals quick starting. Two you save gasoline with signals smooth, obedient, pickup,221602:08:10.640 --> 02:08:14.439
free from balking and hesitation. Three you save gasoline with221702:08:14.560 --> 02:08:18.079
signals lively. Power that gets you into high gear fast221802:08:18.239 --> 02:08:20.439
helps you stay there with a minimum of shifting on221902:08:20.560 --> 02:08:23.800
hills or in traffic. So you see, considering the number222002:08:23.840 --> 02:08:26.640
of times a day you start your car, accelerate and222102:08:26.800 --> 02:08:31.039
shift gears, even a little gasoline saved each time soon222202:08:31.199 --> 02:08:35.439
adds up to a big saving. So they're in a nutshell. Friends,222302:08:35.520 --> 02:08:38.640
is why motor is called signal the go farther gasoline.222402:08:39.239 --> 02:08:42.039
Why not treat your car to a tankful tomorrow and222502:08:42.399 --> 02:08:44.760
go farther with signal.222602:08:46.920 --> 02:08:52.960
Sign gasoline your car, We'll go the gasoline.222702:09:09.880 --> 02:09:10.479
One morning.222802:09:10.600 --> 02:09:13.079
Two months later, you open your eyes in a hotel222902:09:13.399 --> 02:09:16.920
just outside the city of Los Angeles, don't you, Frank. Yes,223002:09:17.079 --> 02:09:20.000
you've been here two months waiting for someone to find223102:09:20.039 --> 02:09:23.119
the body of Chuck and identify him as you, the223202:09:23.239 --> 02:09:27.399
missing Frank Malloy, and last night's paper carried the story223302:09:27.439 --> 02:09:30.760
you've been waiting for, the story of your death. Now223402:09:30.880 --> 02:09:33.720
it'll be safe to change your name and leave the223502:09:33.760 --> 02:09:37.319
country with Vivian. Everything has gone perfectly, hasn't it, Frank.223602:09:38.479 --> 02:09:40.960
You stretch out on the bed and your hand drops223702:09:41.039 --> 02:09:43.960
down to touch this small handbag you've kept beside you,223802:09:44.680 --> 02:09:49.119
the bag containing over a hundred thousand dollars. Suddenly you223902:09:49.199 --> 02:09:52.359
sit up, realizing the bag is gone. You get up224002:09:52.399 --> 02:09:55.239
and search the room frantically, but the money isn't there.224102:09:59.119 --> 02:10:07.600
Operator Operator, Yes, sir, would you connect me with room224202:10:07.640 --> 02:10:09.880
three h three, Miss vian Ne Smith and hurry.224302:10:12.800 --> 02:10:14.920
I'm sorry, sir, but miss Smith checked out at the224402:10:14.960 --> 02:10:15.960
hotel about an hour ago.224502:10:16.079 --> 02:10:17.800
What did she leave a message?224602:10:19.079 --> 02:10:20.680
Nothing, sir, good?224702:10:21.279 --> 02:10:21.800
Anything else?224802:10:23.159 --> 02:10:23.199
No?224902:10:24.800 --> 02:10:36.680
Nothing? Who's there? Vivian? Vivian, the bag with the that's225002:10:36.720 --> 02:10:39.000
what you're looking for you.225102:10:39.399 --> 02:10:42.000
He's from the police department, do the police.225202:10:42.199 --> 02:10:44.680
Yes, he picked me up at the airport. After reading225302:10:44.720 --> 02:10:46.319
the story in the paper last night. I thought it225402:10:46.399 --> 02:10:47.520
was safe enough now to leave.225502:10:47.680 --> 02:10:48.439
Only it wasn't.225602:10:48.600 --> 02:10:51.319
She was taking your money and running out on you, molloy,225702:10:51.479 --> 02:10:51.880
And why not.225802:10:52.199 --> 02:10:53.880
It would only be a matter of time before I225902:10:53.920 --> 02:10:55.159
meant no more to him than master.226002:10:55.920 --> 02:10:57.439
Doesn't matter now, Frank.226102:10:57.920 --> 02:10:59.520
Sure doesn't. You see?226202:10:59.600 --> 02:11:02.239
The news paper story was just to get you out226302:11:02.319 --> 02:11:05.960
in the open. Some fishermen did find a body in226402:11:06.039 --> 02:11:08.680
the lake, but after all this time, it was a226502:11:08.760 --> 02:11:13.159
little hard to identify. He was wearing your clothes, molloy,226602:11:13.279 --> 02:11:16.520
and was in your car. Your wife thought it was you,226702:11:16.680 --> 02:11:18.520
but I don't see how that could tell you something.226802:11:18.640 --> 02:11:18.800
Though.226902:11:19.880 --> 02:11:23.960
At the morgue we found out different. You see, Maloy,227002:11:24.119 --> 02:11:26.760
it wasn't hard to figure out what you'd done when227102:11:26.800 --> 02:11:29.720
we found a tattoo on the drown man's chest.227202:11:31.119 --> 02:11:35.880
Eh. The tattoo of a heart with the words Chuck227302:11:36.479 --> 02:11:37.479
and Maimie.227402:11:56.319 --> 02:11:58.920
Featured in Tonight's story where Bill Foreman is the Whistler,227502:11:59.359 --> 02:12:03.119
Gerald Moore, Betty lou Gerson, Shepherd MANCN, and Charlotte Lawrence.227602:12:03.760 --> 02:12:06.520
The Whistler was produced and directed by George w Allen,227702:12:06.640 --> 02:12:09.960
with story by Gus Bays, music by Wilbur Hatch, and227802:12:10.199 --> 02:12:14.319
was transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The227902:12:14.359 --> 02:12:17.439
Whistler was entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the228002:12:17.479 --> 02:12:21.600
Whistler are also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance228102:12:21.640 --> 02:12:25.600
to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember to228202:12:25.680 --> 02:12:28.279
tune in at this same time next Sunday when the228302:12:28.359 --> 02:12:32.399
Signal Oil Company will bring you another strange story by228402:12:32.760 --> 02:12:37.079
the Whistler. Marvin Miller, speaking for the Signal Oil Company.228502:12:48.079 --> 02:12:51.319
Side name.228602:13:00.800 --> 02:13:03.960
I do so hope that it snows, my dear.228702:13:05.399 --> 02:13:05.760
What's that?228802:13:06.760 --> 02:13:12.039
Well, I suppose I don't often have anywhere to be,228902:13:13.800 --> 02:13:18.159
so I'm not worried about the roads or the walkways.229002:13:19.560 --> 02:13:19.600
No.229102:13:21.399 --> 02:13:26.880
In fact, I wouldn't really see the snow at all.229202:13:31.880 --> 02:13:35.279
I know, I know I shouldn't be so melancholy, but229302:13:35.399 --> 02:13:39.359
it is quite a fine line during this time of year,229402:13:40.319 --> 02:13:44.640
from being holly and jolly to being the last days229502:13:46.000 --> 02:13:47.720
of a condemned man.229602:13:57.359 --> 02:14:00.600
Out of the past phantoms of a world gone by,229702:14:00.840 --> 02:14:06.000
speak again the immortal tale, the last day of a229802:14:06.159 --> 02:14:21.520
condemned man. This is the voice of a man condemned,229902:14:22.560 --> 02:14:26.479
condemned by the law of the state and by freaky circumstance.230002:14:28.039 --> 02:14:31.439
I am, by all ordinary standards, a good citizen of France.230102:14:32.199 --> 02:14:35.640
I have fought under Bonaparte, I have served my country,230202:14:36.239 --> 02:14:39.840
married and fathered a child. But all those things come230302:14:39.920 --> 02:14:44.960
to nothing the cell of the condemned. Hour by hour,230402:14:45.119 --> 02:14:47.880
I await my pardon, but it.230502:14:47.920 --> 02:14:48.600
Will not come.230602:14:49.479 --> 02:14:53.359
I know that, for this is the working of a curse,230702:14:54.600 --> 02:14:57.079
a curse placed upon my father to last through all230802:14:57.119 --> 02:15:00.720
the generations of his line, for having a too well230902:15:01.720 --> 02:15:05.920
a woman who has promised to another man. Each day,231002:15:06.119 --> 02:15:08.520
the specters of those who have gone before me in231102:15:08.560 --> 02:15:12.720
the cell accused me and passed before me to disappoint231202:15:12.800 --> 02:15:13.079
all my.231302:15:13.199 --> 02:15:15.520
Hopes and to horrify me.231402:15:17.159 --> 02:15:21.319
They're here again, murderous thieves. All of the andre andre231502:15:21.479 --> 02:15:25.439
are nerved. Sit down, my friend, control yourself. These things231602:15:25.479 --> 02:15:29.279
are only pictures in your mind. Ah, they're real, Francois.231702:15:29.880 --> 02:15:32.479
They are the homeless spirits of the condemned, murderers and231802:15:32.560 --> 02:15:35.319
thieves who are in this celling years gone by. They've231902:15:35.359 --> 02:15:37.880
come to haunt me, to welcome me among the condemned.232002:15:37.960 --> 02:15:41.520
You know you've done nothing, really nothing that is a crime.232102:15:41.920 --> 02:15:46.399
But everyone thinks I have my wife, my daughter. They've232202:15:46.439 --> 02:15:49.239
accused me. Think of a Francois. They have accused me232302:15:49.319 --> 02:15:51.680
of my own murders and of a crime against my232402:15:51.800 --> 02:15:56.319
own family. Oh, Francois, I wouldn't even harm a hair232502:15:56.439 --> 02:16:00.359
of their precious heads. And these ghosts are they know232602:16:00.439 --> 02:16:04.960
of the curse, They know my release is impossible since232702:16:05.000 --> 02:16:12.680
the state has condemned me, Francois, Francois, what if some232802:16:12.880 --> 02:16:15.279
of them were as innocent as I am? Condemned and232902:16:15.399 --> 02:16:19.439
executed on false evidence. Perhaps that's why they've come to233002:16:19.479 --> 02:16:22.279
welcome me to the guillotine. But you have every reason233102:16:22.359 --> 02:16:24.720
to hope for a pardon when the case is reviewed. Andre,233202:16:25.239 --> 02:16:29.399
you know you're innocent. Forget these ghosts, Andre, when you're free,233302:16:29.479 --> 02:16:32.920
they have vanished from your mind, from your side of233402:16:33.000 --> 02:16:35.799
these bars. It is easy to say that you are233502:16:35.840 --> 02:16:38.920
in prison only for being my companion. But in the233602:16:39.040 --> 02:16:42.799
two inches of space between ourselves there is a world233702:16:42.879 --> 02:16:46.040
of difference. Here on my side lie the spirits of233802:16:46.159 --> 02:16:49.760
men condemned to death for crime, and on your side233902:16:49.760 --> 02:16:52.360
are the spirits of those who have served their sentences234002:16:52.399 --> 02:16:54.440
and gone again into the world of life. But you234102:16:54.600 --> 02:16:58.760
may yet be pardoned. Andrea, those faces, the way they234202:16:58.840 --> 02:17:03.440
looked at me, he looked at you. You saw their faces. Yes,234302:17:04.479 --> 02:17:08.000
for the first time to day they set for my234402:17:09.520 --> 02:17:14.159
my execution. I saw them. I carry their heads under234502:17:14.200 --> 02:17:16.959
their arms, and the eyes of those heads looked at me.234602:17:17.520 --> 02:17:20.040
They seemed to tell me certainly, that I soon would234702:17:20.040 --> 02:17:23.079
be with them. All they are your imagination. You bring234802:17:23.200 --> 02:17:26.000
on those images by thinking about those names scratched on234902:17:26.079 --> 02:17:29.559
the wall of yourself, and the scratchings of those dead men. Yes,235002:17:30.879 --> 02:17:35.680
they were all here here in this very cell, and they, Francois,235102:17:36.280 --> 02:17:39.799
they were all killed by the guillotine, the guillotine that235202:17:39.879 --> 02:17:42.360
they've constructed again in the courtyard out there for me.235302:17:42.559 --> 02:17:45.479
But they were murderers and thieves. That's the difference.235402:17:45.520 --> 02:17:45.959
You are not.235502:17:46.319 --> 02:17:51.159
But they even they have accepted me among their number.235602:17:51.719 --> 02:17:54.200
They know, I can tell by the way they looked235702:17:54.200 --> 02:18:00.920
at me. But the guillotine won't be robbed, Francois, France. Wife,235802:18:00.959 --> 02:18:05.120
she would only come if the child would repent. Then235902:18:05.280 --> 02:18:07.440
they could not look at me. So she will Andre,236002:18:08.000 --> 02:18:11.200
be certain of that child will come, and all will236102:18:11.239 --> 02:18:15.479
be Pyna, Francois. Even I know that my hopes are236202:18:15.520 --> 02:18:19.719
in vain at that dispart of the curse. But my236302:18:19.879 --> 02:18:22.360
own wife and children will disown me in the hour236402:18:22.440 --> 02:18:27.040
of danger and will not even know me. And it works, Francois,236502:18:27.719 --> 02:18:32.719
The curse is working. You remember how it happened, Francois.236602:18:33.799 --> 02:18:36.360
You were with me. Then we were walking along a236702:18:36.440 --> 02:18:39.159
road toward a village. We were laughing and talking and236802:18:39.200 --> 02:18:48.200
feeling happy in our new freedom. Heer, just think, Andre,236902:18:49.319 --> 02:18:54.040
tomorrow will behold her Paris, our wives, everything we've been dreaming.237002:18:54.120 --> 02:18:57.319
I have Only a few days ago, we were forgotten men,237102:18:57.559 --> 02:19:01.079
prisoners of war, forgotten. The war was over and our237202:19:01.159 --> 02:19:05.680
Napoleon was defeated. But we're still left to rock. That's237302:19:05.719 --> 02:19:09.360
the price of defeat, Francois. But we have escaped from237402:19:09.399 --> 02:19:13.079
those harras. This is friends. That should be enough, I suppose.237502:19:13.159 --> 02:19:18.120
But think of home, Francois. Home after so long, perhaps237602:19:18.159 --> 02:19:20.600
after so long Paris will not be the way you237702:19:20.600 --> 02:19:25.639
will mention it. Perhaps it's changed, Paris never, Paris does237802:19:25.719 --> 02:19:28.920
not change, not his home the heart of one who237902:19:29.079 --> 02:19:32.280
loves you as well as Mile Lorrain, my wife, Lorraine238002:19:32.479 --> 02:19:37.399
loves me. Ha had a stop for a moment in restaurant.238102:19:41.120 --> 02:19:44.479
Tell me, aren't you anxious to get back to your238202:19:44.559 --> 02:19:49.520
wife and your child? My wife is dead, Andre, we238302:19:49.879 --> 02:19:53.600
never had a child. I'm sorry, Francois. I didn't know.238402:19:53.840 --> 02:19:56.920
It's long past now. Andre. Thank you though for your sympathy.238502:19:58.000 --> 02:20:00.680
But I do know that tomorrow or the next day,238602:20:00.840 --> 02:20:03.040
when we do come to Paris, after this long journey,238702:20:03.079 --> 02:20:04.000
you will feel happy.238802:20:04.479 --> 02:20:06.479
And I'm glad for you. Thank you, Ransell.238902:20:06.639 --> 02:20:09.639
I'm glad for you because there's never been a better companion. Andre.239002:20:10.239 --> 02:20:13.799
Through everything, we've never had trouble. You are, I believe,239102:20:14.639 --> 02:20:17.559
the gentlest man I've ever met, And you, too, Francois,239202:20:17.600 --> 02:20:22.280
have been a good companion. But a tired one night, perhaps,239302:20:23.280 --> 02:20:26.280
but I suppose anyone's entitled to that after what we've239402:20:26.360 --> 02:20:31.520
been through. But here my stomach's crying for food. I'll239502:20:31.559 --> 02:20:33.079
go on into the village alone and see what I239602:20:33.120 --> 02:20:35.639
can get. It's better anyway, you're better at getting people239702:20:35.680 --> 02:20:38.520
to give us food than I am. Just think after tomorrow,239802:20:38.600 --> 02:20:41.200
we'll never beg again. If you don't come back within239902:20:41.280 --> 02:20:43.360
a short time, I'll follow you into the village and240002:20:43.399 --> 02:20:45.879
help you. Should you have fore no trouble, There will240102:20:45.920 --> 02:20:48.920
be no trouble. People don't mind giving the poor tired240202:20:49.000 --> 02:20:51.840
soldiers like us. I'll be back, Francois.240302:20:52.559 --> 02:21:03.000
I'll meet you here, okay, yes, monsieur, Hello.240402:21:02.920 --> 02:21:05.600
Little one, What is it you want? If you'll open240502:21:05.639 --> 02:21:06.959
the door a little wider, I can.240602:21:06.920 --> 02:21:11.639
Tell you there a little wider now, monsieur, is.240702:21:11.680 --> 02:21:12.680
Your mamma at home?240802:21:13.159 --> 02:21:13.799
She is busy.240902:21:14.479 --> 02:21:16.840
I am a soldier, little one. I only want to241002:21:16.879 --> 02:21:17.879
ask you for some food.241102:21:18.159 --> 02:21:20.879
If you're a soldier, you need nothing. But you don't241202:21:20.920 --> 02:21:23.879
look like a soldier in nose, dirty clothes. I don't241302:21:23.879 --> 02:21:24.319
believe you.241402:21:25.719 --> 02:21:26.399
What is your name?241502:21:26.639 --> 02:21:28.280
Never mind? I don't like you.241602:21:28.440 --> 02:21:30.840
Go away, but I wouldn't hurt you.241702:21:31.000 --> 02:21:31.520
I don't care.241802:21:32.040 --> 02:21:33.399
Go away, go away.241902:21:33.920 --> 02:21:37.840
Somehow you you look? If you do, look like another242002:21:37.920 --> 02:21:42.239
little girl, I know she'd be just about your age too.242102:21:42.799 --> 02:21:46.840
Who Her name is Bernice, and she lives in Paris.242202:21:47.319 --> 02:21:48.639
I lived in Paris once.242302:21:49.200 --> 02:21:51.920
This little girl is still there. I am a father.242402:21:53.559 --> 02:21:54.239
What's your name?242502:21:55.120 --> 02:21:55.639
Bernise?242602:21:56.120 --> 02:21:59.360
Oh you see you're very much like this other little girl.242702:22:00.559 --> 02:22:02.120
How long have you been away from Paris?242802:22:02.280 --> 02:22:05.440
Only? Never mind? Go right away?242902:22:05.760 --> 02:22:11.760
But maybe you No, no, you couldn't be my little girl,243002:22:11.799 --> 02:22:14.719
could you? Where is your papa?243102:22:15.600 --> 02:22:21.120
Papa's gone gone away for a long time. He died243202:22:21.159 --> 02:22:21.639
in the war.243302:22:23.000 --> 02:22:27.719
I'm sorry, Bernice. Would you give me something to eat?243402:22:27.920 --> 02:22:29.840
No, I won't go to the market if you want243502:22:29.920 --> 02:22:36.200
something to eat. They have food there, Bernise, Oh, bernus down, Yes, mamma.243602:22:36.920 --> 02:22:39.200
Was there some one at the door, A nasty man243702:22:39.280 --> 02:22:40.399
who said he was a soldier.243802:22:40.920 --> 02:22:41.600
A soldier.243902:22:42.040 --> 02:22:44.600
He didn't look like a soldier to me. He was244002:22:44.680 --> 02:22:46.399
all dressed in awful old clothes.244102:22:46.600 --> 02:22:47.360
What did he want?244202:22:47.639 --> 02:22:50.239
He wanted something to eat. I sent him to the market.244302:22:50.319 --> 02:22:52.319
They are food there, Oh, Bunis.244402:22:53.120 --> 02:22:57.000
You shouldn't have done that. Oh well, it doesn't matter.244502:22:57.600 --> 02:23:04.360
He will find something, Deniece. Is that the man going244602:23:04.399 --> 02:23:05.440
off down the street there?244702:23:05.879 --> 02:23:07.520
Yes, he's.244802:23:09.760 --> 02:23:11.079
There's something about him.244902:23:12.079 --> 02:23:12.520
He's back.245002:23:12.639 --> 02:23:15.159
Perhaps that looks like your father.245102:23:16.920 --> 02:23:21.879
That's impossible, andres did we had the report from the245202:23:21.959 --> 02:23:22.719
general himself.245302:23:23.120 --> 02:23:25.799
Papa was a hero. You said so mamma.245402:23:26.159 --> 02:23:30.319
Yes, but sometimes, darling, I wish we hadn't moved from245502:23:30.360 --> 02:23:35.719
Paris quite so quickly after we heard Perhaps sometimes I245602:23:35.799 --> 02:23:40.040
think there might be a chance that he'd come back. Ah,245702:23:40.159 --> 02:23:43.000
but these aren't things for you to worry about, Darling.245802:23:43.040 --> 02:23:44.680
I want you to run down to market and buy245902:23:44.719 --> 02:23:45.840
a loaf of bread for lunch.246002:23:46.200 --> 02:23:46.760
We'll need it.246102:23:47.319 --> 02:23:48.840
Here's the money, and do.246202:23:48.959 --> 02:23:49.760
Be careful, darling.246302:23:49.959 --> 02:24:01.520
Yes, m I'll be right down, monsieur monsieur beaker, ma'am bread.246402:24:01.639 --> 02:24:02.239
She likes him?246502:24:02.639 --> 02:24:06.600
Why, Bernice Jermaine, I thought your mamma was going away246602:24:06.639 --> 02:24:08.120
to visit in leo Is.246702:24:09.000 --> 02:24:10.000
She hasn't left yet.246802:24:10.159 --> 02:24:10.520
How long?246902:24:11.600 --> 02:24:16.399
But did I hear you call this child Bernice Jernayne? Yes,247002:24:16.600 --> 02:24:20.239
that is her name for nice Janaine. Then it is you.247102:24:20.239 --> 02:24:21.959
You are, my little girl?247202:24:22.040 --> 02:24:23.239
Oh way, I don't know you.247302:24:23.520 --> 02:24:25.399
You shall leave the child alone. Can't you see that247402:24:25.440 --> 02:24:26.079
you're frightening her?247502:24:26.319 --> 02:24:28.959
She is? She is my own away. I don't know.247602:24:29.399 --> 02:24:32.600
I don't like him, away, my child?247702:24:32.840 --> 02:24:34.239
Why would you not recognize me?247802:24:34.479 --> 02:24:36.719
Away? Why won't you go away?247902:24:36.840 --> 02:24:37.559
The child is right?248002:24:37.639 --> 02:24:39.639
Get out now, get out, leave her alone.248102:24:41.079 --> 02:24:41.479
Very well.248202:24:42.680 --> 02:24:49.760
I'll go goodbye, little one, Thank Heaven.248302:24:49.840 --> 02:24:50.319
He's gone.248402:24:50.840 --> 02:24:54.120
Men like that are no good good riddings. I will248502:24:54.159 --> 02:24:56.159
get the bread that your mother likes. I will have248602:24:56.239 --> 02:24:57.879
to get it from the oven in the back room.248702:25:00.399 --> 02:25:01.639
Pernie, go away.248802:25:02.040 --> 02:25:03.319
Did you hear what the baker said?248902:25:03.440 --> 02:25:04.600
But he is wrong?249002:25:05.200 --> 02:25:06.040
I am monsieur.249102:25:06.520 --> 02:25:08.760
Why would you not go? I tried to help you249202:25:08.799 --> 02:25:09.040
when I.249302:25:09.000 --> 02:25:12.479
Struggle so a minute ago you tried to help me.249402:25:13.360 --> 02:25:15.159
I saw you steal that loaf of bread when I249502:25:15.280 --> 02:25:18.280
came into the shop. My mother said that I should249602:25:18.280 --> 02:25:20.840
have helped you before I made a fuss.249702:25:20.879 --> 02:25:25.399
You could get away my own daughter helping her father249802:25:25.520 --> 02:25:29.600
to steal. Then you do recognize your father. My father249902:25:29.719 --> 02:25:34.719
is dead, but your father is not dead. Child. Look here, venice,250002:25:35.000 --> 02:25:36.959
Here on my sword, my name is engraved there.250102:25:40.399 --> 02:25:46.319
You kill d o way, oh way, don't hurt me.250202:25:48.799 --> 02:25:54.719
Oh you're the hell mother, monsieur, your.250302:25:56.760 --> 02:26:03.120
Lord, sir, monsieur, Hey, hey, hey, what is it?250402:26:04.200 --> 02:26:04.920
What goes on here?250502:26:04.959 --> 02:26:06.840
What did happened? Let me go? Let me go. I've250602:26:06.920 --> 02:26:09.360
done nothing to kill me. You can't ask me with250702:26:09.440 --> 02:26:13.719
that thord he hold there he got What did you250802:26:13.799 --> 02:26:17.000
do nothing? Look at the sword you will find your answer.250902:26:17.079 --> 02:26:19.280
The truth is they are engraved on the blade.251002:26:19.319 --> 02:26:21.360
Truth, get me the thot maker.251102:26:21.440 --> 02:26:25.520
Let me have a look at you here this h now,251202:26:25.719 --> 02:26:28.479
let me see just tell me you tell me so?251302:26:28.639 --> 02:26:29.959
He's done it by my father.251402:26:30.079 --> 02:26:33.479
Andrage, your main officer in the army of Napoleon.251502:26:34.399 --> 02:26:34.559
Uh.251602:26:35.120 --> 02:26:37.200
Where did you come by this, monsieur telling?251702:26:37.360 --> 02:26:37.959
You tell me so?251802:26:38.200 --> 02:26:40.600
Hungry Francois hear my friend?251902:26:40.840 --> 02:26:41.239
Come here?252002:26:41.520 --> 02:26:42.120
What's going on?252102:26:42.920 --> 02:26:45.040
There are all these people here, this Chandra. Tell them252202:26:45.079 --> 02:26:47.520
who I am, Francois I Heaven's sake, tell them who252302:26:47.559 --> 02:26:50.799
I am? Asked a minute, who are you? I was252402:26:50.920 --> 02:26:52.920
waiting in the fields for my friend to come back.252502:26:53.000 --> 02:26:57.360
We're we're on our way to Paris, waiting in the field. Murderer,252602:26:57.600 --> 02:27:01.000
Steve's that's what you are, roaming your out of the countryside,252702:27:01.120 --> 02:27:02.600
blundering small villagers.252802:27:03.319 --> 02:27:04.479
Come with me? Have you.252902:27:06.000 --> 02:27:08.120
Hold office? In just a moment. That voice, that's the253002:27:08.200 --> 02:27:11.040
voice of my wife from Lorraine. Oh you are mad253102:27:11.239 --> 02:27:14.079
come along and it is my darling.253202:27:14.159 --> 02:27:14.920
What has happened?253302:27:15.040 --> 02:27:15.600
And then.253402:27:17.399 --> 02:27:22.719
With his daughter, he says, Madame, that he is your husband. Lorraine.253502:27:23.280 --> 02:27:26.000
Don't you know me? Don't you know me?253602:27:26.079 --> 02:27:26.520
Lorraine?253702:27:28.319 --> 02:27:34.040
But my Andre these few years changed me so much Loraene, No.253802:27:35.879 --> 02:27:41.959
No, you are not my husband. My Andre died. My253902:27:42.159 --> 02:27:43.799
Andre died years ago.254002:28:26.239 --> 02:28:32.760
My Andre died, My Andre died years ago. I heard254102:28:32.840 --> 02:28:35.600
those words from the lips of my own life, and254202:28:35.719 --> 02:28:39.040
I knew in that moment, as I now know, that254302:28:39.159 --> 02:28:43.120
it was the working of the curse. They have set254402:28:43.159 --> 02:28:46.680
four o'clock today is the hour of my end, for254502:28:46.799 --> 02:28:48.879
that is the hour when the rabble can feed their254602:28:48.959 --> 02:28:53.360
curiosity upon the spectacle. And I can only cling to254702:28:53.479 --> 02:28:56.760
the shred of hope that the child or her mother254802:28:57.000 --> 02:29:02.040
will come, will accept me as their own. Now it254902:29:02.120 --> 02:29:05.840
will not happen. I thought for a moment at the255002:29:05.959 --> 02:29:08.440
trial that the curse was broken.255102:29:13.879 --> 02:29:15.200
That man was at our door.255202:29:15.879 --> 02:29:19.079
He threatened my child. Then, from what she says, later,255302:29:19.200 --> 02:29:21.319
when I came looking for at the market, I found255402:29:21.360 --> 02:29:22.840
the scene I told you about.255502:29:25.799 --> 02:29:29.159
All, Madame. Thank you re East Domaine. Please take the255602:29:29.239 --> 02:29:35.319
sund and East Jermaine. I remember a child that all255702:29:35.440 --> 02:29:37.879
you say must be the truth. Tell us what happened255802:29:37.920 --> 02:29:39.479
on that day in the market when you met this255902:29:39.600 --> 02:29:41.879
man there, he tried to kill me with his sword.256002:29:47.399 --> 02:29:49.319
Why did he do this, Beernise?256102:29:49.680 --> 02:29:52.600
He said he was my father, But my father is dead.256202:29:53.520 --> 02:29:56.440
I know because Mamma said so. And he wanted to256302:29:56.479 --> 02:29:58.799
show me his sword, he said. Then he swung it256402:29:58.879 --> 02:30:00.280
at me, and.256502:30:03.840 --> 02:30:04.920
Is this theese?256602:30:05.399 --> 02:30:05.600
Yes?256702:30:05.879 --> 02:30:07.159
Did he take it out of its sheath?256802:30:07.479 --> 02:30:07.639
Oh?256902:30:07.760 --> 02:30:10.600
Yes, he said it had writing on it, but I257002:30:10.719 --> 02:30:14.079
can't read, monsieur, so I don't know that is this?257102:30:14.840 --> 02:30:18.799
Is this the writing he showed you Benese Andre Germain,257202:30:19.000 --> 02:30:20.639
officer in the army of Napoleon.257302:30:21.120 --> 02:30:22.600
And then then he.257402:30:22.639 --> 02:30:23.239
Swung it at me.257502:30:23.319 --> 02:30:25.639
Monsieur, I screamed, and he came after me.257602:30:28.200 --> 02:30:32.200
My own child sat there and accused me. But it257702:30:32.360 --> 02:30:35.239
was not that which held my attention. It was the257802:30:35.399 --> 02:30:38.559
look in the eyes of Lorraine, my wife. For a257902:30:38.680 --> 02:30:42.959
moment it seemed that she recognized me. Then as the258002:30:43.040 --> 02:30:47.559
attorney reached the final words of his charge, she looked258102:30:47.559 --> 02:30:50.600
at me again. It's a stranger. It is my crimen258202:30:50.920 --> 02:30:51.360
to find.258302:30:51.440 --> 02:30:54.319
Andre Jermaine gives me not only of attempting to murder258402:30:54.399 --> 02:30:57.079
this child, but the murder of a fellow officer on258502:30:57.159 --> 02:31:02.040
the field of battle. His companion runs fall Dia. You258602:31:02.159 --> 02:31:04.760
must find kill they of aiding in the attempted christ.258702:31:06.520 --> 02:31:10.079
Monsieur, Yes, I don't know.258802:31:10.200 --> 02:31:13.360
Why you call me by my first name, monsieur. But258902:31:14.200 --> 02:31:16.600
I did not wish to have you so seriously charged259002:31:17.719 --> 02:31:22.159
your punishment for attempting to kill my child. Yes, I259102:31:22.280 --> 02:31:28.840
wanted that, But the other charge no, for I know,259202:31:29.559 --> 02:31:32.120
I know well that my Andre died honorably on the259302:31:32.200 --> 02:31:33.040
field of battle.259402:31:33.120 --> 02:31:37.479
But the rain I am Andre. Don't you recognize me?259502:31:37.520 --> 02:31:38.200
Don't you know me?259602:31:38.680 --> 02:31:40.879
I will do everything I can to have you acquitted259702:31:40.920 --> 02:31:45.920
of the charge of his murder, monsieur, But Andre is dead.259802:31:50.799 --> 02:31:55.639
My cell was like a stone coffin my bed, only259902:31:55.719 --> 02:31:59.600
a palet of damp straw in the room. I could260002:31:59.639 --> 02:32:03.760
feel spirit of those who had gone before me. I260102:32:03.920 --> 02:32:07.479
was separated from Francois by a thick wall, but there260202:32:07.559 --> 02:32:10.440
was a small opening through which we could talk, and260302:32:10.559 --> 02:32:12.799
so he could hear me that first time when the260402:32:12.879 --> 02:32:20.159
processions appeared before my eyes. Francois, Francois, what is it? Andrea?260502:32:20.280 --> 02:32:20.639
What is it?260602:32:21.200 --> 02:32:25.319
These walls they're covered with names. Here is about two260702:32:26.159 --> 02:32:30.559
eighteen fifteen, def whol eighteen eighteen, he killed his father,260802:32:30.799 --> 02:32:35.239
Jean Martei eighteen twenty one, poisonous, And I am among260902:32:35.399 --> 02:32:40.040
these thieves and murderers. Everyone who has been here in261002:32:40.079 --> 02:32:42.440
this cell, they have come to welcome me.261102:32:42.600 --> 02:32:45.559
Andre, Andre, stopman become letting.261202:32:45.559 --> 02:32:47.520
Your imagination went away with you. But they were here,261302:32:47.639 --> 02:32:51.879
Francois saw them in vague shapes, but they passed by me.261402:32:52.200 --> 02:32:54.360
They came to welcome me, Francois. They know that I261502:32:54.440 --> 02:32:56.600
am condemned. They accept me as one of them. But261602:32:56.719 --> 02:32:59.559
you have done nothing, Andrea, remember that you have done nothing.261702:33:00.280 --> 02:33:06.479
The pardon will come. It will come, But I know better.261802:33:08.399 --> 02:33:12.040
I have waited this long time for a pardon. On261902:33:12.159 --> 02:33:16.120
the machinery of state rolls slowly onward. The little document262002:33:16.159 --> 02:33:18.520
that is my request for a pardon is tossed from262102:33:18.879 --> 02:33:21.680
one place to another, and no one will pay it262202:33:21.680 --> 02:33:25.600
any heed. That is the way of the state and262302:33:25.959 --> 02:33:29.440
the way of the curse. Is that an hour left,262402:33:30.319 --> 02:33:33.760
and after that I fear that another figure will join262502:33:33.840 --> 02:33:40.479
that procession of shapes which comes across myself. And yes,262602:33:41.600 --> 02:33:44.040
is there anything you wish in this last hour?262702:33:44.559 --> 02:33:44.600
No?262802:33:44.799 --> 02:33:45.079
Nothing.262902:33:45.799 --> 02:33:55.000
Men stand forward here, open your collar. M Madame Guillotine263002:33:55.079 --> 02:34:00.040
will need some help. Eh, now you are ready. He263102:34:00.120 --> 02:34:02.319
still be in sharply to talk with you. I'm not263202:34:02.399 --> 02:34:04.680
to bother. I have nothing to say that is for263302:34:04.799 --> 02:34:08.399
your own soul to say Andrejami, if you want to263402:34:08.440 --> 02:34:10.520
take that last walk alone.263502:34:11.159 --> 02:34:17.719
Yours is the choice. And yes, why did you do that?263602:34:18.399 --> 02:34:24.040
Refuse to see the priest. Perhaps, Francois, Perhaps I still263702:34:24.239 --> 02:34:26.879
have more hope than even you have for my release.263802:34:28.159 --> 02:34:31.319
Even now, after the crowd of blood hungry watches have263902:34:31.399 --> 02:34:35.000
started to gather them in the courtyard, I still have hope.264002:34:35.600 --> 02:34:41.399
The child will come. Yes, Andre, she will come. What's264102:34:41.440 --> 02:34:43.600
happening out there, Francois, I can't see. The window is264202:34:43.639 --> 02:34:46.559
too high. Road is shouting in a group of fives.264302:34:47.879 --> 02:34:52.280
Just drink, Francois, I'll shout when I go up those steps.264402:34:58.840 --> 02:34:59.760
I don't want to come here.264502:35:00.440 --> 02:35:00.840
You must.264602:35:01.360 --> 02:35:05.760
You must go quickly, Nnice, quickly, Pnie, Loren they've come.264702:35:07.760 --> 02:35:11.239
If so is here, Madame, you may not stay long.264802:35:11.920 --> 02:35:15.239
I don't want to Memmo, go quickly, Bernice, go up264902:35:15.280 --> 02:35:15.760
to the bars.265002:35:16.440 --> 02:35:23.840
Here, come along, Pernice, my child, Memma, yes, he looks265102:35:23.879 --> 02:35:30.559
so different. It is dark in here, Lorene, Bernice, my265202:35:30.840 --> 02:35:41.200
child says something the child thought, Monsieur. Bernice says something, Pernice, Lorraine, No.265302:35:41.360 --> 02:35:48.920
Memo, The child thought, Monsieur that perhaps she had been mistaken.265402:35:50.000 --> 02:35:51.719
You, Loreen, you must know me.265502:35:52.559 --> 02:35:53.239
No monsieur.265602:35:54.440 --> 02:35:58.840
Neither nice nor I was wrong. My husband died on265702:35:58.920 --> 02:36:03.159
the battlefields. Yeah, my Andre is mourned as a hero265802:36:03.360 --> 02:36:10.440
of France. No, monsieur, you couldn't possibly be that man.265902:36:18.600 --> 02:36:24.959
No, indeed, I am condemned. She knew me, but she266002:36:25.200 --> 02:36:28.079
would not recognize me. But you are not guilty, Andre,266102:36:28.799 --> 02:36:34.520
remember that. But they they do not believe that. Francois.266202:36:35.040 --> 02:36:38.840
What is it, Andrea? They are coming again. They're coming back.266302:36:38.879 --> 02:36:40.840
Oh no, no, they've gone, Andrea. They won't be back.266402:36:40.920 --> 02:36:44.200
It's hopeless, and they will never go. They know that266502:36:44.319 --> 02:36:49.159
I'll be with him, Andrea. The ghosts they condemned dead.266602:36:50.159 --> 02:36:55.520
They are coming for me. Now, who look, Francois by here,266702:36:56.680 --> 02:37:04.920
doctor poor Jean Martain Gasta one hundred dollars. They are266802:37:05.040 --> 02:37:10.920
coming for me. Look look, Francois. They are here, all266902:37:11.000 --> 02:37:16.239
of them. They carry their heads. The mouths are smiling.267002:37:17.479 --> 02:37:21.799
The mouths are smiling at me. They are beckoning. They267102:37:21.959 --> 02:37:27.879
want me me, Francois, Andre star star passing by me, Francois,267202:37:28.799 --> 02:37:34.239
But each one beckons as he goes. Then then they267302:37:34.360 --> 02:37:42.280
wait when they are passed. Look back, Francois. They are waiting.267402:37:43.959 --> 02:37:49.440
It is another figure that they're waiting for Francois. Look267502:37:51.040 --> 02:37:58.200
look he's coming now manewhi hah, it is me, Francois.267602:37:59.319 --> 02:38:02.680
It is my figure coming, coming to join the others.267702:38:04.280 --> 02:38:07.639
It's time now, Andres I mean, yes.267802:38:09.200 --> 02:38:17.600
It's time. Now, it's time. I'm with them already. We267902:38:17.760 --> 02:38:35.319
need to quit no longer. The kiss is finished. From268002:38:35.440 --> 02:38:38.200
the time one pages of the past, we have brought268102:38:38.280 --> 02:38:43.479
you the story the last day of a condemned man,268202:38:45.000 --> 02:38:47.920
Bell Gaper all about.268302:39:10.639 --> 02:39:15.280
Well, I'm feeling a little better now. It is getting268402:39:15.440 --> 02:39:19.600
very late, and that's kind of my thing, I suppose.268502:39:20.559 --> 02:39:26.760
Or what's that? Well, thank you, I'm sure it'll all268602:39:27.040 --> 02:39:32.559
be fine. Don't you worry. You worry too much. Leave268702:39:32.719 --> 02:39:38.479
that to me. Just relax. One more bit of good fun.268802:39:41.479 --> 02:39:49.479
Something scary and merry goes together, like peanut butter and jelly.268902:39:50.479 --> 02:39:54.760
Or The Pit and the Pendulum.269002:40:08.239 --> 02:40:09.000
Suspense.269102:40:28.159 --> 02:40:32.280
This is your narrator, a man in black again, about269202:40:32.319 --> 02:40:38.680
to introduce to night's Columbia program suspense. The story is269302:40:38.760 --> 02:40:42.040
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poele, the269402:40:42.120 --> 02:40:46.920
adaptation by John Dixon Carr. Our guest is the distinguished269502:40:46.920 --> 02:40:50.600
American actor mister Henry Hull, who plays the part of.269602:40:50.600 --> 02:40:52.520
A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition.269702:40:53.799 --> 02:40:56.600
If you've been with us on these Tuesday nights, you269802:40:56.639 --> 02:41:01.079
will know that suspense is compounded of mystery, suspicion, and269902:41:01.239 --> 02:41:05.799
dangerous avenger to hold you in a vicarious situation and270002:41:05.920 --> 02:41:10.479
withhold the solution until the last possible moment. And so270102:41:10.719 --> 02:41:13.440
it is with the Pit and the Pendulum and mister270202:41:13.520 --> 02:41:16.840
Hull's performance, we again hope to keep you in.270302:41:18.559 --> 02:41:24.000
Suspense. And now the Pit and the Pendulum.270402:41:38.799 --> 02:41:45.120
I was sick, sick unto death with that long agony.270502:41:46.120 --> 02:41:48.760
And when at lengthy unbound me and I was permitted270602:41:48.799 --> 02:41:51.840
to sit, I felt that my senses were leading me.270702:41:52.799 --> 02:41:58.040
The sound of the inquisittorial voices seemed merged in one dreamy.270802:41:58.040 --> 02:42:03.280
Indeterminate hum. Yet for a while I saw how terrible270902:42:03.280 --> 02:42:05.440
an exaggeration. I saw the.271002:42:05.600 --> 02:42:09.840
Soft and nearly imperceptible waving of the sabled drape breeze271102:42:09.879 --> 02:42:12.920
on the walls of the room. I saw the flames271202:42:13.000 --> 02:42:15.879
of the seven tall candles which burned on the tables.271302:42:16.479 --> 02:42:20.319
I saw the lips of the black hooded judges, and271402:42:20.440 --> 02:42:21.479
these lips appeared to.271502:42:21.559 --> 02:42:27.600
Me wite as paper, white, as horror. I saw them271602:42:28.280 --> 02:42:31.760
rise with a deadly locution. I saw them fashion the271702:42:31.840 --> 02:42:41.280
syllables of my name. Yeah, Delibray, captain Joor.271802:42:41.319 --> 02:42:47.000
Delbray, good father, gentlemen. Ye, my son, I am very271902:42:47.079 --> 02:42:50.280
weak and infirm. I've been confined for many months in272002:42:50.360 --> 02:42:52.920
a dungeon. I've been tormented.272102:42:52.520 --> 02:42:58.079
By nightmare, conscious one puss pray silence around Tonio. Even272202:42:59.000 --> 02:43:01.319
even now, I I have a knowledge of where I272302:43:01.399 --> 02:43:02.840
am or the human that is speaking.272402:43:03.079 --> 02:43:04.920
You are speaking to me, my son.272502:43:05.040 --> 02:43:10.000
I am Propella, Prior of the Dominicans of Segovia and272602:43:10.239 --> 02:43:12.239
Grant Inquisitor of Spain.272702:43:12.639 --> 02:43:16.840
This is this is the court of the inquisition. He oh,272802:43:17.319 --> 02:43:18.319
then God help me.272902:43:18.639 --> 02:43:21.559
He will help you, my son, if you trust him.273002:43:22.000 --> 02:43:24.760
I am a French officer, and it's true a story273102:43:24.959 --> 02:43:28.680
in creature of the art being but a French officer.273202:43:28.440 --> 02:43:31.520
Nonetheless a prisoner of war. But what might you find me.273302:43:31.559 --> 02:43:32.159
In this court?273402:43:32.360 --> 02:43:36.399
Let the clerk read the charges against this prisoner. Gray silence.273502:43:36.479 --> 02:43:38.159
When the clerk reached the church.273602:43:38.000 --> 02:43:40.399
And charges against the prisoner arts fallows in.273702:43:40.520 --> 02:43:44.559
Primis Jean Dalbray, a captain artillery in the Army of Bonapart,273802:43:44.639 --> 02:43:45.559
so called emperor of.273902:43:45.559 --> 02:43:48.520
The prentice means my thing is the prisoner says, it274002:43:48.639 --> 02:43:49.399
is no crime.274102:43:49.760 --> 02:43:50.719
Proceed it.274202:43:50.879 --> 02:43:52.520
Don't get on the bath day of September in the274302:43:52.600 --> 02:43:55.600
year of our eighteen eight, said Jean Dalbray, and went274402:43:55.680 --> 02:43:58.520
as person married the most noble lady Adonia Bite as well.274502:43:58.559 --> 02:44:04.440
There needs some water the moment you are, excellency both Antonio.274602:44:04.719 --> 02:44:08.280
Was any cheat employed to trap this girl into marriage274702:44:08.319 --> 02:44:09.120
against a will?274802:44:10.239 --> 02:44:13.399
No, we have no actual evidence of any cheat.274902:44:13.680 --> 02:44:14.680
Was the girl of age?275002:44:15.120 --> 02:44:20.360
I believe, so wherever is the prisoner here this marriage275102:44:20.479 --> 02:44:21.719
was a deplorable thing.275202:44:21.799 --> 02:44:22.319
If you like.275302:44:22.440 --> 02:44:25.719
Bonaparte himself is almost the gates of my grid. His275402:44:26.000 --> 02:44:30.040
general Lesile Menic is our city of Toledo itself. But275502:44:30.520 --> 02:44:34.200
lawful marriage, however regrettable, is no sin crime.275602:44:34.360 --> 02:44:38.280
There are other matters in the indictment. I think, then continue,275702:44:38.639 --> 02:44:39.520
but give us nothing.275802:44:39.680 --> 02:44:42.920
It is not material item around the prows of October275902:44:42.959 --> 02:44:45.840
eighteen eighth. But Sir rendal Bray, being in command of276002:44:45.879 --> 02:44:48.840
a five gun battery of artillery, they direct the fire276102:44:48.879 --> 02:44:51.360
of his guns against the Holy Church of Saint Martha276202:44:51.440 --> 02:44:56.719
the Kinnerson Watch, and thereby his winning malice destroyed that utterly.276302:44:56.840 --> 02:44:59.760
Captain Dalbray is discharged.276402:45:00.319 --> 02:45:01.319
It is admitted.276502:45:01.719 --> 02:45:03.719
Good Father, here what I have to say. When church276602:45:03.840 --> 02:45:06.360
blew up? I think, would you boast of be your opinion?276702:45:06.479 --> 02:45:06.600
Man?276802:45:06.719 --> 02:45:07.239
That blew up?276902:45:07.280 --> 02:45:10.680
Because it was stored with kegs of gunpowder for your army.277002:45:10.840 --> 02:45:12.360
I had a right to file on it.277102:45:12.520 --> 02:45:15.040
And that is all the defense you have to make.277202:45:15.159 --> 02:45:17.200
I tell you I had every right to file on277302:45:17.319 --> 02:45:18.559
it by military law.277402:45:18.719 --> 02:45:22.200
There was military law above God's law.277502:45:24.440 --> 02:45:24.920
I don't know.277602:45:25.959 --> 02:45:29.440
I did my duty, that's all. Long live the Emperor,277702:45:29.799 --> 02:45:33.000
Captain mark what I say.277802:45:34.159 --> 02:45:37.879
No man, however great is heresy, is ever condemned to277902:45:37.959 --> 02:45:39.239
be burnt in the fire.278002:45:39.559 --> 02:45:40.840
Fire fire.278102:45:41.719 --> 02:45:44.959
The first we cant and acknowledge the error of his ways.278202:45:45.719 --> 02:45:48.600
But for you, Jean d'arbray, there can be no mercy,278302:45:49.280 --> 02:45:53.559
no pity, nor tonement. The only sentence of this court278402:45:53.799 --> 02:45:54.200
can be.278502:45:56.159 --> 02:45:59.719
Yes. The secular a government after.278602:45:59.479 --> 02:46:03.399
Which we must release you, has devised two ways of punishment.278702:46:03.520 --> 02:46:07.159
In case it's such as yours. You hear the tolling278802:46:07.239 --> 02:46:08.840
of the bell, I hear them.278902:46:09.600 --> 02:46:12.879
It is the possession of the contempt going to the279002:46:12.959 --> 02:46:13.799
auto da face.279102:46:13.959 --> 02:46:16.639
Soon the yellow light of the flames will stream through279202:46:16.639 --> 02:46:19.200
the windows and flicker on the floor, and seeing no279302:46:19.559 --> 02:46:25.680
kat or motives into it manderbus domina. Most of those279402:46:25.840 --> 02:46:30.319
condemned out of mercy will be stangled before they apparned.279502:46:31.399 --> 02:46:33.879
It cannot be so with you, Jean Delbray.279602:46:34.600 --> 02:46:38.159
You must die in one of two ways, either with279702:46:38.319 --> 02:46:42.600
the direst a physical agony, a slow fire and green279802:46:42.760 --> 02:46:46.120
wood iced bandages above the head and the heart, so279902:46:46.319 --> 02:46:48.799
that the fire does not approach too quickly.280002:46:49.280 --> 02:46:53.959
Or else, Jean Delbray, you must die in a certain280102:46:54.079 --> 02:46:54.639
other way.280202:46:56.360 --> 02:47:00.639
Pass your sentence and let me go. My Lord does280302:47:00.719 --> 02:47:03.799
not permit me to tell you now what this other way.280402:47:05.000 --> 02:47:07.120
The sentence of discord.280502:47:07.520 --> 02:47:14.040
Therefore I had swooned.280602:47:15.040 --> 02:47:17.920
Yet still I would not say that all of consciousness280702:47:18.079 --> 02:47:21.719
was lost in the deepest slumber. No in delirium, no280802:47:22.079 --> 02:47:28.239
in a swoon, No in death, Oh, even in the grave, all.280902:47:28.319 --> 02:47:29.000
Is not lost.281002:47:29.600 --> 02:47:34.280
There are shadows of memory which tell us indistinctly of tall.281102:47:34.159 --> 02:47:40.280
Figures that lifted me and bore me in silence, down, down, still.281202:47:40.520 --> 02:47:44.639
Down, until the hideous dizziness oppressed me at that descent281302:47:45.399 --> 02:47:51.079
into the earth, And as consciousness swam.281402:47:51.239 --> 02:47:59.280
Back to my wits darkness, the stone floor and darkness.281502:48:00.600 --> 02:48:06.280
Oh beddress, my wife, Bedress. Did you.281602:48:08.840 --> 02:48:09.639
Was that you was born?281702:48:09.719 --> 02:48:12.920
Yes, you were here in the dungeons of the Inquisition.281802:48:13.120 --> 02:48:16.040
I am not really speaking through you, my poor gen.281902:48:16.840 --> 02:48:18.440
I am only in your imagination.282002:48:18.639 --> 02:48:19.159
I'm mad.282102:48:19.639 --> 02:48:23.840
No, but your brain is fevered. You only think you hear.282202:48:23.840 --> 02:48:24.760
No, No, no, I do.282302:48:25.000 --> 02:48:27.719
I do hear you clearly, as clearly as I once heard.282402:48:27.799 --> 02:48:30.239
Give the little church near the april where we were there.282502:48:30.440 --> 02:48:33.120
Yes, yes, yes, I just tried that church, Beatrice. I282602:48:33.239 --> 02:48:35.200
had to. It was my commanding officers order.282702:48:37.159 --> 02:48:37.920
Be comforted.282802:48:38.840 --> 02:48:40.000
There are those who can do.282902:48:40.040 --> 02:48:40.760
You won't leave me.283002:48:40.879 --> 02:48:43.639
As long as I am in your heart, I shall283102:48:43.680 --> 02:48:43.959
be you.283202:48:44.440 --> 02:48:49.159
I was strong once. No, no I am, But once283302:48:49.239 --> 02:48:54.079
I was reckless. Now I am afraid? Am I beardriss?283402:48:54.399 --> 02:48:55.399
What are you going to do to me?283502:48:55.559 --> 02:48:59.479
I cannot tell. Remember, my voice comes only from your283602:48:59.520 --> 02:49:02.040
own brain. Are you fetted?283702:49:02.239 --> 02:49:02.639
Fettered?283802:49:04.760 --> 02:49:07.159
No, They've not chained you to the wall.283902:49:07.479 --> 02:49:10.600
No. No, They've taken away in my uniform. They've given284002:49:10.639 --> 02:49:14.559
me sandals in the robe of what feels like coarse search.284102:49:14.760 --> 02:49:21.000
But I am still free, free, take courage, free and284202:49:21.280 --> 02:49:24.079
in the glass of the inquisition.284302:49:25.840 --> 02:49:30.840
Yes, it's completely dark, there's hardly any air. I bed284402:49:30.920 --> 02:49:33.440
to get up, I read to stretch out my hand.284502:49:33.840 --> 02:49:36.879
Supposed suppose they've buried me alive.284602:49:38.479 --> 02:49:41.799
Courage, can you stand up?284702:49:43.440 --> 02:49:44.000
I think so.284802:49:44.239 --> 02:49:44.399
Yes.284902:49:44.680 --> 02:49:48.280
Then walk, walk as far as you can, measure the285002:49:48.360 --> 02:49:51.000
limit of the cell. If this is not a tool,285102:49:51.079 --> 02:49:55.040
you're like Beatrice that always are you on your feet?285202:49:55.159 --> 02:49:55.319
Yes?285302:49:55.520 --> 02:50:00.920
Now now pray, pray for a poor devil, always meant well.285402:50:02.159 --> 02:50:06.360
One piece, two, pace free four.285502:50:06.719 --> 02:50:07.879
You are very weak.285602:50:08.040 --> 02:50:10.200
Shun rest of moments?285702:50:10.280 --> 02:50:12.360
Where are now appear Chris in the flesh?285802:50:12.520 --> 02:50:13.600
I mean you know that.285902:50:13.760 --> 02:50:17.920
Sharn in the old house, by the olive girl, scorned286002:50:18.000 --> 02:50:21.520
of my peet. Each morning I climb to the hilltop286102:50:21.600 --> 02:50:25.680
and walk. Sometimes I think I hear gun greens grumble286202:50:25.719 --> 02:50:28.799
in the hills, and long moving colors with the red286302:50:29.000 --> 02:50:32.120
dust rising about gor go on. First come the heavy286402:50:32.200 --> 02:50:36.479
cavalry and plume crested elders on their flanks, wheeling like hawks,286502:50:36.600 --> 02:50:39.840
light whose hours in blue and scarlet, and behind them286602:50:40.280 --> 02:50:42.920
in a glitter of bayonets as fast as light points286702:50:42.959 --> 02:50:47.280
on the seas. Rank upon us, the long gray coats286802:50:47.360 --> 02:50:49.399
and the tall their skin cats.286902:50:49.239 --> 02:50:51.879
The old god Hella grand army.287002:50:52.959 --> 02:50:56.600
It is only a vision, my dear ones. They do287102:50:56.799 --> 02:51:02.040
not come, will they ever come? Beatrip?287202:51:02.319 --> 02:51:03.440
I cannot tell.287302:51:03.639 --> 02:51:09.399
Then, and I must face what has been prepared for me.287402:51:10.520 --> 02:51:14.760
Walk again, John, try keep your hand in front of287502:51:14.840 --> 02:51:15.479
your rope.287602:51:15.840 --> 02:51:18.799
Rob impedes me, and the floor is treacherous with slime.287702:51:19.079 --> 02:51:25.239
But I'll try four faces, fry six.287802:51:26.440 --> 02:51:26.799
Seven.287902:51:27.079 --> 02:51:28.200
It can't be a tomb.288002:51:30.719 --> 02:51:38.319
Lookout all right, I tell, I tell them as the288102:51:38.479 --> 02:51:41.639
road row tripped me right.288202:51:42.479 --> 02:51:45.799
My hand is in front of me. It's lower than288302:51:45.840 --> 02:51:46.280
my face.288402:51:46.360 --> 02:51:50.680
But I feel, I feel nothing nothing.288502:51:50.879 --> 02:51:55.319
John's a certain killer, And.288602:51:55.440 --> 02:51:56.559
I tell everybody. Edge of it.288702:51:58.520 --> 02:52:00.159
They would have made you walk into We.288802:52:00.239 --> 02:52:04.159
Cared the loose fragment of rock just inside the edge.288902:52:04.159 --> 02:52:05.559
How if I can just wadge.289002:52:06.200 --> 02:52:20.079
Listen Waters there's something down there?289102:52:20.959 --> 02:52:23.959
Rassi me, rats, Yes, what's something else?289202:52:24.040 --> 02:52:24.959
I heard it?289302:52:25.120 --> 02:52:25.280
Move?289402:52:25.559 --> 02:52:28.120
Did I What is in the picture?289502:52:28.479 --> 02:52:29.399
I don't know what.289602:52:29.600 --> 02:52:38.399
You're saved, saved, saved from the inquisition. My torture has289702:52:38.479 --> 02:52:41.879
been merely postponed.289802:52:57.680 --> 02:52:57.840
Us.289902:52:58.719 --> 02:53:02.600
A deep sleep fell upon me, sleep like that of death.290002:53:03.719 --> 02:53:07.280
How long it lasted I know not. When I opened290102:53:07.360 --> 02:53:10.840
my eyes once again, I could.290202:53:10.840 --> 02:53:17.479
See, yes, see my prison with large and loftiest walls290302:53:17.559 --> 02:53:21.399
formed a massive iron place, bolted adjoined together a wild290402:53:21.559 --> 02:53:24.639
sulfurous luster. I could not face its origin lit up290502:53:24.680 --> 02:53:29.159
the dungeon and the circular pit, and the coogly daubed skeleton.290602:53:29.239 --> 02:53:32.719
Figures painted and evil colors on the iron walls, skeleton290702:53:32.799 --> 02:53:39.120
figures demon figuregoryle figures, the colors a little blurred and290802:53:39.280 --> 02:53:42.879
from the effects of the death. It must approach you290902:53:43.040 --> 02:53:47.479
slowly and force itself into your mind. It must talk291002:53:47.600 --> 02:53:50.959
here like a tire, must bring you face to face291102:53:51.200 --> 02:53:58.520
at last with the King of terrors. When I I291202:53:58.639 --> 02:54:02.639
regained consciousness, I lay on my back and at full291302:54:02.760 --> 02:54:07.079
length on a low framework. Would to this framework, I291402:54:07.200 --> 02:54:13.159
was securely bounded by a long fastening resembling a surgical bandage.291502:54:14.040 --> 02:54:14.440
Bound.291602:54:15.159 --> 02:54:15.959
But why.291702:54:17.280 --> 02:54:21.559
Why why the bandage passed round and round my body,291802:54:22.000 --> 02:54:24.159
leaving a liberty only my head in my left arm.291902:54:24.760 --> 02:54:28.360
With much exertion, I could suptire myself with food from292002:54:28.360 --> 02:54:30.319
an earthen dish on the floor beside me.292102:54:30.920 --> 02:54:36.760
There's meat, highly seasoned, but there was no water.292202:54:40.760 --> 02:54:43.680
Beatrice, Beatrius, Where are you?292302:54:46.399 --> 02:54:46.440
You?292402:54:46.479 --> 02:54:52.239
Always sounds stronger, And I can see you now, I292502:54:52.319 --> 02:54:55.000
can see you as clearly as I saw you months ago.292602:54:55.360 --> 02:54:57.760
I wish it threw your bonnet and the parasol you292702:54:57.840 --> 02:54:58.840
carried in summer, and.292802:54:58.879 --> 02:55:00.399
The high waisted blue dres You are.292902:55:00.399 --> 02:55:04.799
Weaker, my dear, and more fevert Why have I been asleep?293002:55:05.239 --> 02:55:09.760
Yes, they must have been here while I slept. They293102:55:09.840 --> 02:55:10.719
have bound me?293202:55:11.200 --> 02:55:12.760
Why? Why?293302:55:13.959 --> 02:55:14.200
Why?293402:55:15.000 --> 02:55:15.200
Why?293502:55:15.440 --> 02:55:20.840
Stofle's voices stopped my tusure. I am not here, ei,293602:55:21.120 --> 02:55:23.159
Why don't drive me away?293702:55:24.959 --> 02:55:26.799
Let's see Room thirty forty.293802:55:27.159 --> 02:55:27.600
What you see?293902:55:27.920 --> 02:55:30.840
I see painted on the ceiling figure of father time.294002:55:30.920 --> 02:55:35.120
Anything else but father Time carries no sign. He carries294102:55:35.159 --> 02:55:39.360
instead what looks like a gigantic pendulum from an ancient clock.294202:55:39.520 --> 02:55:41.680
About one thing, I swear, I'm in my rec senses.294302:55:41.760 --> 02:55:43.040
I saw that pendulum move.294402:55:43.360 --> 02:55:45.479
Painting cannot move, yet, I swear.294502:55:45.319 --> 02:55:48.760
The pendulum did it swung a little back and thought,294602:55:49.399 --> 02:55:51.639
just like a real pendulum.294702:55:51.799 --> 02:55:56.879
Try not to trouble your brain. Take care, take care294802:55:56.920 --> 02:56:00.399
of what you're not looking at the pendulum. Now from294902:56:00.440 --> 02:56:03.520
the pit, I see them swarming.295002:56:03.200 --> 02:56:04.040
Out in dozens.295102:56:04.360 --> 02:56:06.799
You can see their eyes glitter, one of them ranging295202:56:06.799 --> 02:56:08.200
across the hem of your dress.295302:56:09.159 --> 02:56:11.360
They caught the scent of the meat in the dish.295402:56:11.440 --> 02:56:13.239
Besides, you're not getting car.295502:56:14.399 --> 02:56:15.920
Move your hand above the plate.295602:56:16.040 --> 02:56:18.719
John, where you going?295702:56:20.000 --> 02:56:20.879
I could hardly?295802:56:21.280 --> 02:56:26.360
You are sending me away, sending you away, my poor love,295902:56:26.440 --> 02:56:32.559
you can't Beare to see the rats running about my bed?296002:56:37.719 --> 02:56:45.040
Yes, that's true, their cells swarming with vermin. There are others.296102:56:45.159 --> 02:56:48.239
I had robbers. See here, I had rubbers.296202:56:48.440 --> 02:56:48.840
See you.296302:56:52.840 --> 02:56:58.239
Call me Captain Delbray, and in the spirit I am here.296402:56:58.360 --> 02:56:58.719
Who are you.296502:57:00.200 --> 02:57:06.239
To recognize me? I am the second inquisitor, Bryantonio, whom296602:57:06.280 --> 02:57:10.319
you've got unfair as your trial. But we were not unfair.296702:57:11.440 --> 02:57:13.680
Administer the law, that is all.296802:57:13.840 --> 02:57:18.680
So I command you, oh, not until I have first296902:57:18.799 --> 02:57:20.200
told you what you.297002:57:20.399 --> 02:57:25.079
Already get, which there are two forms of death such297102:57:25.120 --> 02:57:31.120
as you. One death with its direst physical torture. We297202:57:31.239 --> 02:57:35.200
are a death with its direst mental torture.297302:57:35.239 --> 02:57:40.920
And I have been condemned to the second. Your guess297402:57:41.440 --> 02:57:41.840
is good.297502:57:42.920 --> 02:57:44.799
Listen, you're here.297602:57:45.120 --> 02:57:48.680
I think, yes, yes, I do, I hear something.297702:57:49.360 --> 02:57:54.479
Turn your eyes upwards. Look at the ceiling, dum hi.297802:57:54.799 --> 02:57:57.719
The pendulum is descended only a potos.297902:57:58.440 --> 02:58:01.920
Yes, as you know, it is not really a pendulum.298002:58:03.200 --> 02:58:07.399
It's on the side with a Christmas formed of sharp298102:58:08.040 --> 02:58:14.319
a razor, sharp steel, ponderous weight. Captain Dalbray, His movement298202:58:14.520 --> 02:58:18.440
is slow now, but soon it will take on momentum.298302:58:19.280 --> 02:58:25.239
It will swing wider and wider, thirty feet perhaps presently.298402:58:26.079 --> 02:58:30.440
As it swings, you will hear it hiss, and with298502:58:30.600 --> 02:58:35.879
each broad movement it will creep a trifle lower steals298602:58:36.159 --> 02:58:38.200
directly abond.298702:58:37.959 --> 02:58:43.159
Me yes about the region of your heart. Right still,298802:58:44.000 --> 02:58:48.159
and look up at it? How how long before?298902:58:48.559 --> 02:58:52.319
And we'd have no immediate fears. It will not be299002:58:52.639 --> 02:59:00.239
too soon? How soon you'll con the name some answer us?299102:59:01.239 --> 02:59:07.120
Perhaps days is beginning to swing wider. I can't take299202:59:07.200 --> 02:59:12.879
my eyes from it. It's gigar fascinates you. Okay, see299302:59:13.040 --> 02:59:15.920
how it shines in that wildlight. And this says your299402:59:16.159 --> 02:59:18.479
utmost refined to be cruel.299502:59:19.280 --> 02:59:25.520
The law, Captain Dalabery, is never cruel. And now still299602:59:25.680 --> 02:59:30.479
in the spirit I leavil to your meditations. It shall299702:59:30.559 --> 02:59:44.120
not be too soon minutes, hours, days, okay.299802:59:50.120 --> 02:59:50.600
Down.299902:59:51.879 --> 02:59:55.680
STEADI lay down. It crept days past.300002:59:56.520 --> 02:59:59.120
It might have been many days before it it swept300102:59:59.239 --> 03:00:02.879
so close to just to fan me with a smallbid breath.300203:00:04.200 --> 03:00:07.120
Minutes ahs.300303:00:09.079 --> 03:00:09.479
Days.300403:00:11.600 --> 03:00:15.520
The order of the sharp steel forced itself into my nostrils,300503:00:16.360 --> 03:00:16.959
the right.300603:00:18.639 --> 03:00:22.159
To the left, hard and wide.300703:00:23.600 --> 03:00:28.360
The shrieked of a damned spirit to my heart with300803:00:28.520 --> 03:00:31.760
a stealthy pace, hot tiger.300903:00:33.239 --> 03:00:44.079
Down, certainly, relentiously down. I prayed, I really to Heaven.301003:00:44.120 --> 03:00:46.959
With my prayer of his more speedy descent, I grew301103:00:47.000 --> 03:00:49.399
friendically mad and struggled to force myself.301203:00:49.200 --> 03:00:53.680
Up against that swinging, bittering death, A.301303:00:56.840 --> 03:01:02.120
Down, still, unceasfully still, in evidently down.301403:01:02.639 --> 03:01:05.920
The sharp steel flashed past with it, cree.301503:01:06.959 --> 03:01:13.040
Just we're just h We're just spin Where are you?301603:01:14.680 --> 03:01:14.920
John?301703:01:15.440 --> 03:01:22.360
I am here. There's a strange thing. I'm quite calm.301803:01:25.600 --> 03:01:27.120
That is a strange thing.301903:01:28.040 --> 03:01:29.920
Even now I am not resigned.302003:01:30.479 --> 03:01:31.360
Is there a way out?302103:01:31.559 --> 03:01:35.559
How can I be ten twelve or more? Hibritions and302203:01:35.719 --> 03:01:36.200
wild fray?302303:01:36.360 --> 03:01:40.159
The surge of my robe only light laces or water302403:01:40.840 --> 03:01:44.280
in a delicate hand. There will be many sweeps before302503:01:44.319 --> 03:01:48.040
it bites deep, though I can't escape it.302603:01:48.440 --> 03:01:51.239
You kept me away from you, John, You locked me302703:01:51.319 --> 03:01:53.959
out of your plots. If I am here only in302803:01:54.040 --> 03:01:57.719
your clots, why should I hear the reck that you302903:01:57.920 --> 03:01:59.879
open your eyes and your eyes blaze?303003:02:00.760 --> 03:02:01.159
What is it?303103:02:01.319 --> 03:02:01.639
Clutch?303203:02:02.399 --> 03:02:02.680
Today?303303:02:03.120 --> 03:02:05.319
Still swan across the floor.303403:02:05.120 --> 03:02:08.200
And over the meat pack. They have taken nearly all303503:02:08.239 --> 03:02:11.239
your position, and they have sharp well.303603:02:11.600 --> 03:02:12.879
The meat is oily and spiced.303703:02:13.000 --> 03:02:15.360
If I take what remains of it, scatter you can303803:02:16.360 --> 03:02:17.840
let meat from the benches and hold.303903:02:17.719 --> 03:02:19.280
Me John track.304003:02:20.559 --> 03:02:24.280
My body are try it, I tell you, try, But304103:02:24.520 --> 03:02:26.760
look this scatter as soon as I do. Try.304203:02:26.959 --> 03:02:29.520
But they are watching you. I can see their eyes.304303:02:30.479 --> 03:02:32.239
They're creeping back, and I sprained.304403:02:32.280 --> 03:02:34.639
With rats crawling across me. It can of flesh.304503:02:35.399 --> 03:02:38.319
One of them has leaped on the wooden freend. Another follows.304603:02:38.680 --> 03:02:40.879
They're gnawing at the Bend't.304703:02:40.799 --> 03:02:43.680
Eight more sweeps the pendulum and.304803:02:44.120 --> 03:02:46.399
Get right, still shine.304903:02:49.239 --> 03:02:51.479
A dozen rats now is death?305003:02:51.600 --> 03:02:53.040
I wonder worse than this differ.305103:02:53.600 --> 03:02:56.799
A dozen sharp knives could do no better. The bandages305203:02:56.879 --> 03:03:01.280
loosened to ribbons. Now if you move sideways, carefulness and305303:03:01.440 --> 03:03:02.440
drop to the floor a.305403:03:02.559 --> 03:03:05.440
Bit as I can't my arms, my legs are numb.305503:03:05.639 --> 03:03:07.159
There is no power.305603:03:07.479 --> 03:03:10.520
Feel afraid your robe. The minute more will be great305703:03:10.680 --> 03:03:12.559
and time and with all.305803:03:12.440 --> 03:03:12.799
The f.305903:03:14.639 --> 03:03:17.440
And all my hate will I bear my enemies.306003:03:19.559 --> 03:03:20.879
The second rome.306103:03:22.319 --> 03:03:31.360
Free, mum. The pendulum stops. We are drawing it back306203:03:31.440 --> 03:03:31.920
up through the.306303:03:31.959 --> 03:03:38.360
Roof each move I make. He watched, he never doubted.306403:03:38.680 --> 03:03:40.559
Yet with all they could do to you, they have306503:03:40.760 --> 03:03:41.520
failed twice.306603:03:41.639 --> 03:03:44.879
They will not fail no more. Galling with the king306703:03:45.120 --> 03:03:45.799
of terrors.306803:03:46.040 --> 03:03:47.159
What else can they do?306903:03:47.399 --> 03:03:50.000
I can't say. See see how the rat's know in307003:03:50.120 --> 03:03:53.159
silence of that pendage to what food?307103:03:53.479 --> 03:03:54.000
I wonder?307203:03:54.719 --> 03:03:58.959
But you escape the pier I escaped tick once. Listen,307303:04:00.239 --> 03:04:00.840
what do you hear?307403:04:01.280 --> 03:04:05.000
Grown wear? Its grinding as of metal?307503:04:05.479 --> 03:04:07.719
It was only the cock wheels of the pendulum.307603:04:07.879 --> 03:04:09.159
I think that bed. Why not?307703:04:09.360 --> 03:04:12.479
It seemed to come from behind those iron feted walls.307803:04:12.719 --> 03:04:15.360
It seems to shake the dungeon as a mill wheel307903:04:15.440 --> 03:04:16.120
might shake.308003:04:15.920 --> 03:04:18.840
It and stands up my pusson, get up, off your knees.308103:04:18.920 --> 03:04:21.479
I can't be as I can't improcure anymore.308203:04:21.840 --> 03:04:24.680
The paintings on the walls of this dungeon, the skeletons308303:04:24.719 --> 03:04:27.000
and impose and devils, they seem different.308403:04:27.159 --> 03:04:27.840
They are different.308503:04:28.440 --> 03:04:31.799
The color sharpened and grew bright. The demon's eyes glare,308603:04:32.239 --> 03:04:33.719
the skeleton hands out stretched.308703:04:34.239 --> 03:04:37.680
Don't you catch you with yet? The odor of heated iron,308803:04:38.319 --> 03:04:44.920
heated iron. I have been much humbled, but I won't308903:04:45.360 --> 03:04:47.319
I won't have you Samian tears.309003:04:48.079 --> 03:04:48.959
We'll all who.309103:04:48.959 --> 03:04:52.000
Use grow John in the name of Heavy.309203:04:54.239 --> 03:04:55.120
Name of Heaven go.309303:05:02.840 --> 03:05:07.600
A suffocating heat pervaded the prison, A deeper glow settled309403:05:07.639 --> 03:05:10.239
in the painted eyes that glared at me. I could309503:05:10.319 --> 03:05:13.000
draw no breath of air into my lungs against the309603:05:13.120 --> 03:05:14.959
loom of that fiery destruction.309703:05:15.920 --> 03:05:19.920
The thought of the pit and its coolness come like309803:05:20.040 --> 03:05:23.760
a soothing bomb. I staggered to the edge of the pit.309903:05:23.799 --> 03:05:24.399
I looked into it.310003:05:24.840 --> 03:05:28.879
The enkindled walls and a roof lighted it for its depth. Yet,310103:05:28.920 --> 03:05:31.680
for one wild moment, even then, I refused to believe310203:05:31.879 --> 03:05:34.639
the horror of what I saw beneath me.310303:05:35.680 --> 03:05:38.639
Does the pit please you, Captain.310403:05:38.399 --> 03:05:42.479
Darbray, merciful God, anything but that?310503:05:43.000 --> 03:05:44.680
And how shall you avoid it?310603:05:45.559 --> 03:05:45.799
Look?310703:05:47.280 --> 03:05:52.799
The spungem has changed its shape, that is true. Ohs310803:05:53.000 --> 03:05:57.840
are closing in which was formerly a square, and now.310903:05:57.920 --> 03:06:02.959
It is flattening. Slaw called the center to force me311003:06:03.239 --> 03:06:04.040
into the pit.311103:06:04.440 --> 03:06:08.159
Of course, force you along with me again.311203:06:08.440 --> 03:06:12.000
Apparently you must be told, Captain Galbray, that you were311303:06:12.159 --> 03:06:14.319
speaking old with your own sick fancy.311403:06:14.959 --> 03:06:16.319
I am not here at all.311503:06:17.440 --> 03:06:23.600
Farewell, and closer and closer through the red burning walls,311603:06:24.479 --> 03:06:26.959
forcing me into the pit of the swiftness that left311703:06:27.000 --> 03:06:27.920
me no time for thought.311803:06:28.319 --> 03:06:31.680
I shrank back, but the closing wall has me.311903:06:31.799 --> 03:06:36.239
Relentlessly onward at length for my seared and writhing body312003:06:36.280 --> 03:06:38.440
that was no longer an inch of foothold.312103:06:38.959 --> 03:06:40.799
I feed one.312203:06:41.399 --> 03:06:43.200
I pattered on the edge of the pit.312303:06:51.280 --> 03:06:54.959
My revolved rushed back and outstretched arm caught my own.312403:06:55.319 --> 03:06:57.639
But I was about to fall feet into the abyss.312503:06:58.280 --> 03:06:59.959
Because that's a general lesson.312603:07:00.799 --> 03:07:05.079
The French army had entered Tonedo, the inquisition was in312703:07:05.200 --> 03:07:36.799
the hands of anities, and so closes Poe celebrated story312803:07:37.440 --> 03:07:42.159
The Pit and the Pendulum, starring Henry Hoe. We invite312903:07:42.200 --> 03:07:45.399
you to another adventure of suspense next Tuesday at the313003:07:45.479 --> 03:07:51.639
same hour. Until then, this is the Man in Black saying.313103:07:52.840 --> 03:07:53.280
Good night.313203:07:57.600 --> 03:08:02.120
William Spear the producer, John Eat the director, Bernard Hermann313303:08:02.159 --> 03:08:06.879
the composer conductor, and John Dixon Carr, the author are313403:08:07.000 --> 03:08:08.040
collaborators on.313503:08:09.959 --> 03:08:10.520
This pen.313603:08:21.520 --> 03:08:23.680
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.313703:08:35.319 --> 03:08:40.319
Well, my dear, I suppose it is very late time313803:08:40.440 --> 03:08:42.639
for you to return home and for me to return313903:08:42.719 --> 03:08:48.680
to Well, we'll discuss that later, but please do return314003:08:49.079 --> 03:08:57.559
very soon. I'll be here same place, same time, always314103:08:57.719 --> 03:09:04.120
with a smile and something warm and chilling. But now,314203:09:04.360 --> 03:09:08.079
as you make your way home in the cold winter air,314303:09:08.959 --> 03:09:12.799
as you trudge along in the street, across the way,314403:09:13.239 --> 03:09:17.680
over the river, through the woods, well, do me one314503:09:18.399 --> 03:09:23.959
small favor. As your eyes get heavy and your head314603:09:24.559 --> 03:09:30.639
reaches your pillow and you blink, blink, blink away, take314703:09:30.719 --> 03:09:35.520
one moment and be thankful for what you have. I'll314803:09:35.600 --> 03:09:36.079
be seeing314903:10:00.440 --> 03:10:00.600
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